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the  Holy  Cross. 
A  church  year-book  of  socia 

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A  CHURCH  YEAR-BOOK 
OF  SOCIAL  JUSTICE 

ADVENT  1919— ADVENT  192« 


A  CHURCH  YEARBOOK 
OF    SOCIAL   JUSTICE 

ADVENT  1919— ADVENT  1920 


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THE  SOCIETY  OF  THE  COMPANIONS 
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FOREWORD 

The  social  nature  of  Christianity  has 
not  always  been  commonly  recognized,  nor 
has  the  essentially  Christian  character  of 
much  so-called  "secular"  thought  about 
the  social  order.  It  is  the  merit  of  this 
happy  "anthology"  that  it  levies  contri- 
bution on  so  many  thinkers,  who  have 
given  and  are  giving  themselves  to  the  con- 
sideration of  the  amelioration  of  the  hu- 
man lot.  The  compilers  are  a  group  of 
devoted  and  serious-minded  Churchwomen 
pledged  to  intercession  for  justice  and 
unit}^,  and  to  simplicity  of  life.  Like  wise 
stewards,  they  have  brought  forth  from 
the  common  treasury  of  religious  experi- 
ence things  old  and  things  new,  thereby 
demonstrating  the  continuity  of  the  pres- 
ent with  the  past  and  helping  to  lay  the 
foundations  of  a  better-ordered  future. 
They  feel,  and  the  writer  of  this  word  of 
V 


FOREWORD 


appreciation  feels,  that  it  is  only  as  our 
Church-people  come  to  a  recognition  of 
the  age-long  aspect  of  the  social  problem 
that  the  Church  itself  can  be  a  helpful 
factor  in  transmuting  this  aspiration  into 
practice.  More  specificall}',  it  is  the  note 
of  justice  which  must  be  sounded  and 
heeded  if  the  sores  of  society  are  to  be 
healed:  all  we  are  brethren.  It  is  there- 
fore a  pleasure  to  commend  this  Year- 
Book  to  the  consideration  and  use  of  the 
Church  and  of  all  others  who  may  find 
it  of  value  in  their  own  thought  and 
prayer. 

FuANK    MONSOE    CrOUCH, 

Executive  Secretary,  Joint  Commission  on  Sociai 
Service  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

Church  Missions  House, 
Eastertide,  1919 


VI 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


ADVENT  I 

The  Day  of  the  Lord    .      . 

PAQK 
1 

advent  ii 

The  Kingdom  of  God     . 

9 

ADVENT  III 

Signs  of  the  Kingdom   . 

17 

advent  iv 

The  Coming  of  the  King   . 

.        25 

CHRISTMASTIDE 

Newness  of  Life 

33 

CHRISTMASTIDE 

The       Fellowship       of       t 
Mystery 

HE 

41 

epiphany  i 

The  Workman  Christ    . 

49 

epiphany  ii 

Brotherly  Love  .      .      .     . 

.       57 

epiphany  iii 

Above  the  Battlefield 

65 

SEPTUAQESIMA 

A  Living  Wage     .     ,     .     . 

.       73 

sexagesima 

Christian  Heroism    . 

.       81 

aUINQUAGESIMA 

Love 

.       89 

Vll 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


LENT  I 

The  Fast 

LENT  II 

The  Sins  of  the  Church    . 

LENT  III 

A  Week  with  St.  Chrysostom 

LENT  IV 

Freedom  and  Bread 

LENT  V 

Social  Salvation 
holy  week 

The  Cross 
easter  week 

The  Vision  of  Life  . 

EASTER  I 

A  New  World  Order 
easter  ii 

Compassionate  Care 
easter  iii 

Social  Ties 

EASTER  IV 

Simplicity  of  Life     . 

EASTER  V 

A  Week  of  Intercession 

ascenswxtide 

The  Hope  of  the  Kingdom 
whitsunday 

The  Glory  of  the  Church 

TRINITY 

The  Blessed  Trinity     . 


Vlll 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


TRINITY  I 

Dives  and  Lazarus    . 

PAGE 

.      .      .     217 

TRINITY  II 

ZdlSSIONS       .... 

.      .     225 

TRINITY  III 

The  Body  of  Christ 

.      .     233 

trinity  iv 

The  Church  in  Action 

.      .      241 

TRINITY  V 

Patriotism 

.      .      249 

TRINITY  VI 

The  Class  Struggle 

.      .      257 

TRINITY  VII 

Social  Shame  .      .      .      . 

.      .      265 

trinity  viii 

Individual  Holiness 

.      .      273 

TRINITY  IX 

War  to  End  War 

.      .      281 

TRINITY  X 

The  Day  of  Our  Visita^ 

noN    .      289 

TRINITY  XI 

National  Humility   . 

.      .     297 

TRINITY  XII 

Life  from  Within 

.      .     305 

TRINITY  XIII 

Labor:    Its  Claims    . 

»      .      313 

TRINITY  XIV 

Labor:    Its  Ideals    . 

.      .     321 

trinity  xv 

The  Summons  of  the  Cb 

OSS     .     329 

ix 

TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


TRINITY  XVI  '      PAOB 

Christian  Womanhood  .  .  .  337 
trinity  xvii 

Unity 345 

trinity  xviii 

Our  Neighbor 353 

TRINITY  XIX 

Christian  Ideals  of  Property  .     361 

TRINITY  XX 

A  Week  of  Thanksgiving  .  .  36§ 
trinity  xxi 

Christian  Steadfastness    .      .     377 

TRINITY  XXII 

All  Saints 385 

trinity  xxiii 

Unworldliness 393 

trinity  xxiv 

Alleluia 401 

trinity  xxv 

Scripture  Promises  ....     40t 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

Thanks  are  due  to  the  following  authors 
and  publishers  for  permission  to  quote  pas- 
sages : 

American  Unitarian  Association,  Theo- 
dore Parker;  Benziger  Bros.,  Dubois,  St. 
Francis  of  Assisi;  Century  Company, 
Theodore  Roosevelt,  The  Strenuous  Life; 
Chapman  and  Hall,  Carlyle,  Past  and 
Present;  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Company, 
Katherine  Lee  Bates,  America  the  Beauti- 
ful: Sophie  Jewett,  The  Pearl:  Theodore  F. 
Seward,  The  School  of  Life;  Father  Cuth- 
bert.  Catholic  Ideals  in  Social  Life;  J.  M. 
Dent  and  Sons,  Anne  Macdonell,  Sons  of 
Francis;  Letters  of  St.  Catherine  of  Siena; 
Journal  of  John  Woolman;  P.  J.  and  A.  E. 
Dobell,  Thomas  Traherne,  Poetical  Works; 
The  Dolphin  Press,  Father  Paschal  Rob- 
inson, Tr.  Writings  of  St.  Francis;  Dodd 
Mead  and  Co.,  Elizabeth  Barrett  Brown- 
ing, Poems  (Copyright),  F.  I.  Paradise, 
Christianity  and  Commerce;  E.  P.  Dutton 
AND  Co.,  many  quotations;  Funk  and  Wao- 
NALLS,  W.  E.  Orchard,  The  Outlook  for 
ReligioTi;  Alice  Gladden,  Washington  Glad- 

xi 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT 


den;  Harper  Bros.,  Henry  M.  Aldeii,  God 
in  His  World;  Henry  Holt  and  Co.,  Carl 
Sandburg,  Thet/  Will  Say;  Houghton 
Mifflin  Co.,  Layman  Abbott,  Christianity 
and  Social  Problems;  Bernard  I.  Bell,  Right 
and  Wrong  After  the  War;  Anna  Hemp- 
stead Branch,  The  Shoes  That  Danced; 
Richard  Watson  Gilder,  Poems;  Samuel 
Longfellow,  Hymns  and  Verses;  James  Rus- 
sell Lowell,  Miscellaneous  Poems;  Josephine 
Preston  Peabodj^  Marks,  The  Singing 
Leaves;  Wm.  Vaughan  Moody,  Plays  and 
Poems;  Vida  D.  Scudder,  A  Listener  in 
Babel;  Socialism  and  Character;  Edumund 
Clarence  Stedman,  ed.  American  Anthology ; 
J.  G.  Wliittier,  Poems;  Longmans  Green 
AND  Co.,  Charles  H.  Brent,  The  Inspiration 
of  Responsibility ;  Macmillan  Co.,  Works 
of  Brooke  Foss  Westcott,  A.E.,  Walter 
Rauschenbusch,  Matthew  Arnold,  John 
Graham  Brooks,  Maurice  Hewlett;  The  Bib- 
lical and  Early  Christian  Ideal  of  Property, 
ed.  by  Bishop  Gore;  Edwin  ^Lirkham; 
^IiTCHELL  Kennerley,  Tlicodosia  Garrison, 
Poems;  Missionary  Education  Movement, 
President  Faunce,  Social  Aspects  of  For- 
eign Missions,  The  Morehouse  Publishing 
Co.,  Nelson  and  Sons,  Kropotkine,  Fields, 
Factories  and  Workshops;  The  Outlook 
Company,  The  Oxford  University  Press, 
Robert  Bridges,  Poems;  Charles  Scribner's 
xii 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT 


Sons,  Henry  Van  Dyke,  W.  P.  Merrill,  John 
Galsworthy,  H.  G.  Wells;  The  Survey  As- 
sociates, Hymns  of  the  Social  Awakening; 
Small  and  Maynard,  Father  Tabb;  Hor- 
ace Traubel,  Walt  Whitman;  John  C. 
Winston  Co.,  Rufus  M.  Jones. 


XIU 


PREFACE 

The  Society  of  Companions  of  the  Holy 
Cross  is  glad  to  offer  to  the  Church  this 
Year  Book,  in  which  the  attempt  is  made 
to  suggest  the  play  of  Christian  and  Cath- 
olic thought  down  the  centuries  on  the 
great  principles  of  social  justice  which 
preoccupy  our  own  time.  Many  schemes 
for  such  an  anthology  might  be  developed : 
any  one  scheme  must  be  fragmentary  and 
unsatisfactory.  The  plan  here  adopted 
bears  in  mind  the  social  significance  of 
each  great  Season,  and  in  addition  usually 
takes  the  key-note  for  each  week  from 
the  appointed  Epistle  and  Gospel,  intro- 
ducing the  week  with  brief  devotions  from 
the  same  source.  So  rich  are  the  Scrip- 
tures prescribed  by  the  Church,  that  often 
the  aspect  chosen  is  only  one  among  others 
equally  valuable. 

XV 


PREFACE 


Today,  obedience  to  the  social  implica- 
tions of  our  holy  faith  is  becoming  perhaps 
for  the  first  time  a  practical  aim:  it  is 
recognized  by  many  Christians  as  the  chief 
hope  for  the  new  world  of  which  men 
dream.  At  such  a  time,  a  Year  Book  like 
this  should  be  of  special  value.  Despite 
numerous  imperfections,  of  which  the  com- 
pilers are  keenly  conscious,  we  trust  that 
it  may  be  welcomed  by  the  increasing  num- 
ber of  the  faithful  who  care  for  the  ap- 
plication of  Christianity  to  political  and 
industrial  life  no  less  than  for  the  exten- 
sion of  Missions  and  for  religious  educa- 
tion. 

The  Editors. 


XVI 


ADVENT  I 

THE  DAY  OF  THE  LORD 

V.  Blessed  is  He  that  cometh  in 
the  Name  of  the  Lord. 
R.  Hosanna  in  the  highest. 

For    that    now    is    our    salvation 
nearer  than  when  we  believed, 
Good  Lord,  we  thank  Thee. 


NOVEMBER  30 


Sunday — 

T  T  was  not  warning  that  our  fathers 
lacked, 
It  is  not  warning  that  we  lack  to- 
day. 
The    Voice    that    crieth    still   cries: 
"Rise  up  and  act; 
Watch  alway, — watch  and  pray, — 
watch  alway, — 

All  men." 

Alas,  if  aught  was  lacked  good  will 
was  lacked; 
Alas,  good  will  is  what  we  lack 
to-day.  , 

O  gracious  Voice,  grant  grace  that 
all  may  act. 
Watch  and  act, — watch  and  pray, — 
watch  alway, — 

Amen. 

Christina  Rossetti:   Changing  Climes. 


DECEMBER  1 


Monday — 

nn  HE  real  question  everywhere  is 
'■'  whether  the  world,  distracted 
and  confused  as  everybody  sees  that 
it  is,  is  going  to  be  patched  up  and 
restored  to  what  it  used  to  be,  or 
whether  it  is  going  forward  into  a 
quite  new  and  different  kind  of 
life,  whose  exact  nature  nobody  can 
pretend  to  foretell,  but  which  is  to 
be  distinctly  new,  unlike  the  life  of 
any  age  which  the  world  has  seen  al- 
ready. ...  It  is  impossible  that  the 
old  conditions,  so  shaken  and  broken, 
can  ever  be  repaired  and  stand  just 
as  they  stood  before.  The  time  has 
come  when  something  more  than 
mere  repair  and  restoration  of  the 
old  is  necessary.  The  old  must  die 
and  a  new  must  cdme  forth  out  of 
its  tdml). 

Phillips  Brooks:  Sermons,  Vol.  v, 

3 


DECEMBER  2 


Tuesday — 

rpHROUGH  every  conflict  the 
Truth  is  seen  in  the  majesty  of 
its  growing  vigor.  Shakings,  shak- 
ings not  of  the  earth  only  but  of  the 
heaven  will  come;  but  what  then? 
We  know  this,  that  all  that  falls  is 
taken  away  that  those  things  which 
are  not  shaken  may  remain. 

Bishop  Westcott:  Christus  Consummator, 


DECEMBER  3 


Wednesday — 

T  S  there  but  one  Day  of  Judgment  ? 
"*•  Why,  for  us  every  day  is  a  day 
of  judgment,  and  writes  its  irrev- 
ocable verdict  in  the  flames  of  its 
West.  Think  you  that  judgment 
waits  till  the  doors  of  the  grave  are 
opened?  It  waits  at  the  doors  of 
your  houses, — it  waits  at  the  corners 
of  your  streets;  we  are  in  the  midst 
of  judgment,  the  insects  that  we 
crush  are  our  judges,  the  moments 
we  fret  away  are  our  judges,  the  ele- 
ments that  feed  us  judge  as  they 
minister,  and  the  pleasures  that  de- 
ceive us  judge  as  they  indulge. 
John  Ruskin:  The  Mystery  of  Life, 


DECEMBER  4 


Thursday — 

T  N  the  anguish  of  the  hour,  when 
^  kingdoms  are  rocking  to  their 
base,  the  social  structure  of  modern 
civilization  is  strained  to  the  break- 
ing point,  and  all  hearts  are  full  of 
fear,  it  may  be  left  only  to  a  few  to 
recognize  that  this  is  the  coming  of 
the  Son  of  Man  on  the  clouds  of 
heaven.  All  that  many  see  at  the 
moment  is  the  clouds,  for  they  have 
forgotten  that  this  was  to  be  the 
sign  of  His  coming.  .  .  .  Even  the 
Church  has  not  yet  discerned  that 
the  author  of  this  crisis  is  her  Lord 
who  at  His  great  rejection  took  over 
the  dictatorship  of  history  and  taught 
us  to  see  in  every  human  catastrophe 
the  sign  of  His  Coming. 

W.  E.  Orchard:  The  Outlook  for  Religion. 


6 


DECEMBER  5 


Friday — 

r)E  afflicted,  and  mourn,  and  weep. 
^^  .  .  .  Humble  yourselves  in  the 
sight  of  the  Lord  and  He  shall  lift 
you  up.  .  .  .  Go  to  now,  ye  rich  men, 
weep  and  howl  for  your  miseries  that 
shall  come  upon  you.  Your  riches 
are  corrupted,  and  your  garments  are 
moth-eaten.  Your  gold  and  silver  is 
cankered;  and  the  rust  of  them  shall 
be  a  witness  against  you.  .  .  .  Ye 
have  heaped  treasure  together  for  the 
last  days.  Behold,  the  hire  of  the 
laborers  who  have  reaped  down  your 
fields,  which  is  of  you  kept  back  by 
fraud,  crieth:  and  the  cries  of  them 
which  have  reaped  are  entered  into 
the  ears  of  the  Lord  of  Sabaoth.  .  .  . 
Be  patient  therefore,  brethren, 
un^''^  the  Coming  of  the  Lord. 

Epistle  of  St.  James. 


DECEMBER  6 


Saturday — 

n^HE     world     is     organized     for 
Righteousness,  whether  it  looks 
like  it  or  not:  and  God  can  wait. 

R.   J.    Campbell. 


8 


ADVENT  II 

THE  KINGDOM  OF  GOD 

I^ITHEN  ye  see  these  things  come 

^  ^    to    pass,    know    ye    that    the 

Kingdom  of  God  is  nigh  at  hand. 

That  we  through  patience  and  com- 
fort of  the  Scriptures  may  abound 
in  hope, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


9 


DECEMBER  7 


Sunday — 

VrOTHING  is  bought  for  Vi  lower 
^^  price  than  the  Kingdom  of 
Heaven. 

Gregory  the   Great. 


A  PRAYER  that  has  no  mention 
'^^  of  the  Kingdom  in  it  is  no 
prayer  at  all 

Rabbinical  Saying. 


Thy  kingdom  come  on  earth. 


10 


DECEMBER  8 


Monday — 

'lyl  JE  look  with  unquenchable  hope 
^  ^  upon  the  vision  of  that  social 
order  foretold  by  the  Hebrew  proph- 
ets and  called  by  Jesus  the  Kingdom 
of  God.  Behind  this  world  struggle 
that  coming  world  order  is  dimly 
seen.  It  is  the  task  of  organized  re- 
ligion to  keep  the  vision  from  being 
obscured  by  the  dust  and  sweat  of 
the  conflict.  We  summon  the  gen- 
eration that  is  paying  the  awful  cost 
of  this  world  war,  highly  to  resolve 
that  out  of  it  they  shall  create  some 
form  of  world  organization  that  shall 
turn  the  instruments  of  destruction 
into  the  means  of  constructive  de- 
velopment, that  shall  give  to  every 
nation  and  to  the  last  man  due  share 
in  the  ownership  and  control  of  the 
earth's  resources  and  affairs. 

Federal  Council  of  Churches,  1917. 
11 


DECEMBER  9 


Tuesday — 

nn  HY    Kingdom,    Lord,   we   long 
-■•         for, 

Where  Love  shall  find  its  own; 
And  brotherhood  triumphant 
Our  years  of  pride  disown. 
Thy  captive  people  languish 
In  mill  and  mart  and  mine: 
We  lift  to  Thee  their  anguish, 
We  wait  thy  promised  Sign! 

If  now  perchance  in  tumult 

The  destined  Sign  appear, — 

The  Rising  of  the  People, — 

Dispel  our  coward  fear! 

Let  comforts  that  we  cherish, 

Let  old  tradition  die. 

Our  wealth,  our  wisdom  perish, 

If  so  Thou  mayst  draw  nigh! 

Vida  D.  Scudder, 


12 


DECEMBER  10 


Wednesday — 

"C^OOLISH  men  imagine  that  be- 
cause judgment  for  an  evil  thing 
is  delayed,  there  is  no  justice  but  an 
accidental  one  here  below.  Judg- 
ment for  an  evil  thing  is  many  times 
delayed  some  day  or  two,  some  cen- 
tury or  two;  but  it  is  sure  as  life,  it 
is  sure  as  death!  In  the  centre  of 
the  world-whirlwind,  verily  now  as  in 
the  oldest  days,  dwells  and  speaks  a 
(iod. 

Thomas  Carlyle:  Past  and  Present. 


18 


DECEMBER  11 


Thursday — 

T    COJNIE  in  the  little  things, 

Saith  the  Lord: 
My  starry  wings 
I  do  forsake, 

Love's  highway  of  humility  to  take: 
JMeekly  I  fit  my  stature  to  your  need. 
In  beggar's  part 
About  your  gates  I  shall  not  cease  to 

plead — 
As  man,  to  speak  with  man — 
Till  by  such  art 

I  shall  achieve  My  Immemorial  Plan, 
Pass   the   low  lintel   of  the  human 

heart. 

Evelyn  Underhill:  Immanence. 


14 


DECEMBER  12 


Friday — 

T  THE  Lord  have  called  thee  in 
^  righteousness,  and  will  hold  thine 
hand,  and  will  keep  thee,  and  give 
thee  for  a  covenant  of  the  people ;  .  .  . 
to  open  the  blind  eyes,  to  bring  out  the 
prisoners  from  the  prison  and  them 
that  sit  in  darkness  out  of  the  prison 
house.  ,  .  .  Behold,  the  former  things 
are  come  to  pass,  and  new  things  do 
I  declare:  before  they  spring  forth  I 
tell  you  of  them. 

Isaiah.   XLII. 


15 


DECEMBER  13 


Saturday — 

npHE  Kingdom  of  God  is  the  first 
and  the  most  essential  dogma  of 
the  Christian  faith.  It  is  also  the  last 
social  ideal  of  Christendom.  No  man 
is  a  Christian  in  the  full  sense  of  the 
original  discipleship  until  he  has  made 
the  Kingdom  of  God  the  controlling 
purpose  of  his  life,  and  no  man  is  in- 
tellectually prepared  to  understand 
Jesus  Christ  until  he  has  understood 
the  meaning  of  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

Walter  Rauschenhusch :  Christianizing 
the  Social  Order. 


16 


ADVENT  III 

SIGNS  OF  THE  KINGDOM 


'T^HE    blind    receive    their    sight 

and  the  lame  walk,  the  lepers 

are  cleansed  and  the  deaf  hear,  the 

dead  are  raised  up  and  the  poor 

have  the  gospel  preached  to  them. 

That  we  be  ministers  of  hope  and 
stewards  of  the  mysteries  of  God, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


17 


DECEMBER  14 


Sunday — 

/^IVE  me  the  power  to  labor  for 

^^      mankind ; 

Make  me  the  mouth  of  such  as  can- 
not speak; 

Eyes  let  me  be  to  groping  men  and 
blind ; 

A  conscience  to  the  base;  and  to  the 
weak 

Let  me  be  hands  and  feet ;  and  to  the 
foolish,  mind; 

And  lead  still  further  on  such  as  thy 
kingdom  seek. 

Theodore  Parker. 


18 


DECEMBER  15 


Monday — 

OELIEVE  me,  he  who  does  not 
think  of  the  wants  of  the  poor 
is  not  a  member  of  the  body  of 
Christ,  for  if  one  member  suffers,  all 
suffer. 

St.  Alphege:  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
Tenth  Century, 


19 


DECEMBER  16 


Tuesday — 

T  F  thou  leave  that  thing  which  thou 
art  bound  to  by  way  of  charity, 
thou  dost  not  worship  God  discreetly. 
Thou  art  busy  to  worship  His  head 
and  His  face,  but  thou  leavest  His 
Body,  all  ragged  and  rent,  and  tak- 
est  no  heed  thereof.    Our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  as  Man  is  head  of  a  ghostly 
body,    the    which    is    Holy    Church. 
The  limbs  of  His  Body  are  ail  chris- 
tened men.     Then  if  thou  be  busy 
with  all  thy  might  for  to  array  His 
Head,  that  is  to  worship  Himself, 
and  forgettest  His  feet,  that  are  thy 
children,  thy   servants,   thy  tenants 
and    all    thine    evenchristians,    thou 
pleasest  Him  not.     Thou  makest  to 
kiss  His  mouth  in  devotion  of  ghost- 
ly prayer,  but  thou  treadest  upon 
His  feet  and  deiilest  them. 

W.  Hilton:  Fourteenth   Century. 
-20 


DECEMBER  17 


Wednesday — 

npHE  comfortable  days  when  one 
^  could  give  to  the  poor  and  feel 
that  an  obligation  had  been  dis- 
charged are  past.  While  charity  is 
still  necessary  in  the  midst  of  the 
confusion  and  disorder  of  our  pres- 
ent system,  it  can  be  no  longer 
looked  upon  as  an  end  in  itself. 
Wherever  charity  is  needed  it  is  evi- 
dent that  there  is  always  some  cause 
for  that  situation.  We  feel  now 
that  we  should  go  back  to  the  source 
to  ehminate  the  cause  of  the  trouble. 

Bishop  Paul  Jones. 


21 


DECEMBER  18 


Thursday — 

/^HARITY  urges  the  Christian 
^^  to  work  for  his  neighbor,  buj/ 
this  work  may  be  one  of  two  kinds. 
It  may  be  what  is  usually  known  as 
charitable  work,  or  it  may  be  what  is 
called  social  work.  By  charitable 
work  I  mean,  for  instance,  providing 
for  the  blind,  the  maimed,  the  orphan, 
the  sick,  the  giving  of  alms  to  the  de- 
serving poor.  By  social  work,  I 
mean  work  which  aims  at  preventing 
poverty,  sickness,  suffering.  Chari- 
table work  cures  the  wound;  social 
work  prevents  the  blow  from  falling. 
Charitable  work  prevents  the  effects 
of  evil;  social  work  cuts  at  the  root 
of  the  evil. 

Rev.  L,  McKenna,  S.  J. 


22 


DECEMBER  19 


Friday — 

TN  discussing  the  subject  of  Chris- 
'■■  tian  charity  we  must  not  overlook 
the  more  fundamental  grace  of  jus- 
tice. The  Church  must  not  make 
benevolence  a  substitute  for  justice. 
It  is  said  that  many  of  the  great 
fortunes  in  America  can  be  ac- 
counted for  by  the  margin  between 
what  the  laborers  of  the  industry 
needed  and  should  have  gotten  for 
their  work  and  what  they  actually 
received.  And  perhaps  the  Church 
of  Jesus,  as  it  is  formally  organized 
today,  has  more  need  for  this  funda- 
mental lesson  of  justice  than  it  has 
for  the  advanced  lesson  of  benevo- 
lence. 

The  Christian  Herald. 


23 


DECEMBER  20 


Saturday — 

n^AKE    awa}^    benevolence    from 
the  intercourse  of  men  with  each 
other,  and  thou  hast  taken  the  sun 
out  of  the  world. 


rpHOU  dost  not  give  to  the  poor 
what  is  thine  own,  thou  restorest 
to  him  what  is  his.  The  earth  be- 
longs to  all,  not  to  the  rich  only. 
Thou  art  there  for  paying  thy  debt, 
and  givest  him  only  what  thou  owest 
him. 

St,   Ambrose. 


24 


ADVENT  IV 

THE  COMING  OF  THE  KING 

V.  Rejoice  in  the  Lord  alway. 
R.  The  Lord  is  at  hand. 

Thy  throne,  O  God,  is  for  ever  and 
ever:  a  sceptre  of  righteousness  is 
the  sceptre  of  Thy  Kingdom. 
Thanks  be  to  God. 


25 


DECEMBER  21 


Sunday — 

OAVE    through    the    flesh    Thou 

^^  woulds't  not  come  to  me — 

The  flesh,  wherein  Thy  strength  my 

weakness  found 
A  weight  to  bow  Thy  Godhead  to 

the  ground 
And  lift  to  heaven  a  lost  humanity. 

John  Tabb. 


^T^HE  Incarnation  means  nearness 
— the  nearness  of  strength  to 
weakness,  of  wisdom  to  ignorance,  of 
wealth  to  poverty,  of  purity  to  un- 
cleanness,  of  God  to  man. 

Bishop  Brent:   The  Inspiration  of  Re- 
sponsibility. 


26 


DECEMBER  22 


Monday — 
N  the  person  of  the  Incarnate  we 


I 


see  how  true  it  has  been  all  along 
that  man  is  in  God's  image:  for  this 
is  man,  Jesus  of  Nazareth ;  his  quali- 
ties are  human  qualities,  love  and 
justice,  self  sacrifice  and  desire  and 
compassion;  yet  they  are  the  quali- 
ties of  none  other  than  the  very  God. 
So  akin  are  God  and  man  to  one  an- 
other that  God  can  really  exist  under 
conditions  of  manhood  without  ceas- 
ing to  be  and  to  reveal,  God ;  and  man 
can  be  taken  to  be  the  organ  of  God- 
head without  one  whit  ceasing  to  be 
human. 

Bishop   Gore:    The   Incarnation   of   the 

Son   of   God. 


27 


DECEMBER  23 


Tuesday — 

lA/^-E  are  led  to  believe  a  lie 

^     When  we  see  with  not  through 
the  eye. 
God  appears  and  God  is  light 
To  those  poor   souls  who   dwell  in 

night, 
But  doth  a  human  form  display 
To  those  who  dwell  in  realms  of  day. 

William  Blake:  Auguries  of  Innocence. 


28 


DECEMBER  24 


Wednesday — 

V.  Today  ye  shall  know  that  the 
Lord  is  come. 

R.  And  in  the  morning  then  ye 
shall  see  His  glory.  Breviary. 

A  S  this  night  was  bright 

^^         With  thy  cradle  ray, 

^"ery  light  of  light 

Turn  the  wild  world's  night 

To  thy  perfect  day. 

Yet  thy  poor  endure 

And  are  with  us  yet, 
Be  thy  name  a  sure 
Refuge  for  thy  poor 

Whom  men's  eyes  forget. 

Bid  our  peace  increase, 

Thou  that  madest  morn; 

Bid  oppressions  cease; 

Bid  the  night  be  peace; 
Bid  the  day  be  born. 

Algernon  Charles  Swinburne. 
29 


DECEMBER  25 


Thursday,  Christmas  Day — 

'VTOW  dere  frend  before  matins 
'*'  sail  thou  thynke  of  the  swete 
byrthe  of  leesu  Criste  alther  first. 
The  tyme  was  in  myd  wynnter, 
whene  it  was  maste  cald,  the  hour 
was  at  mydnyghte,  the  hardest  hour 
that  is,  the  stede  was  in  mydwarde 
the  strete,  in  a  house  withouten 
walles;  in  cloutes  was  He  wounden 
and  as  a  childe  was  He  bounden,  and 
in  a  crib  before  an  oxe  and  an  asse 
that  lufely  Lord  was  laid,  for  there 
was  no  other  stead  voyde.  Thou 
sail  thynke  also  of  the  herdes  that 
sawe  the  tokene  of  His  byrthe,  and 
thou  sail  thynke  of  the  swete  felaw- 
ship  of  angells  and  rayse  uppe  thy 
herte  and  synge  with  them :  Gloria  in 
Excelsis  Deo. 

Richard  Rolle:  The  Mirror  of  St.  Ed- 
mikndjy  Fourteenth  Century, 

30 


DECEMBER  26 


Friday — 

npO    pastours    and    to    poets    ap- 

peared  that  angel, 
And  bade  them   go  to   Bethlehem, 

God's  birth  to  honor, 
And  sung  a  song  of  solace,  Gloria  in 

Excelsis  Deo! 
Rich  men  slept  then  and  in  their  rest 

were. 
Though  it  shone  to  the  shepherds,  a 

shewer  of  bliss. 

Langland:  The  Vision  of  Piers  the 

Plowman, 


THE  CHRISTMAS  BABE 

OO  small  that  lesser  lowliness 
^^     Must  bow  to  worship  or  caress ; 
So  great  that  heaven  itself  to  know 
Love's  majesty  must  look  below. 

John  B.  Tahh. 

81 


DECEMBER  27 


Satui'day — 

y[7HETHER  my  house  is  dark  or 
^^    bright, 

I  close  it  not  on  any  night, 
Lest  Thou,  hereafter  King  of  Stars, 
Against    me    close    Thy    Heavenly 
bars. 

If    from    a    guest    who    shares    thy 

board. 
The  dearest  dainty  Thou  shalt  hoard, 
'Tis  not  that  guest,  O  do  not  doubt, 
But  Mary's  Son  shall  do  without. 

Collection  of  Irish  verse. 


82 


CHRISTMASTIDE 


NEWNESS  OF  LIFE 

HEN  the  fullness  of  the  time 
was  come,  God  sent  forth  His 
Son,  made  of  a  woman,  that  we 
might  receive  the  adoption  of  sons. 


w 


For  the   Spirit  of  the   Son  crying 

Abba,  Father,  in  our  hearts 
We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us, 
Good  Lord. 


83 


DECEMBER  28 


Sunday — 

r\  JESU,  born  a  little  child  for 
^^  love  of  us:  Grant  Thy  loving 
pity  to  all  children  under  age  who 
labor  for  daily  wages  in  this  land  of 
ours.  Touch  the  hearts  of  those  who 
through  thoughtlessness  or  love  of 
gain  consider  not  their  weak  and 
tender  years.  Assist  the  passing  of 
just  laws  in  their  behalf,  free  them 
from  bondage,  and  bring  them  to  the 
joyful  inheritance  of  the  children  of 
God,  for  Thy  Name's  sake.    Amen. 

S.  C.  H.   C.   Manual. 


34 


DECEMBER  29 


Monday — 

/^F  my  city  the  worst  that  men  will 

^^       say  is  this: 

You  took  little  children  away  from 

the  sun  and  the  dew, 
And  the  glimmers  that  played  in  the 

grass  under  the  great  sky, 
To  work,  broken  and  smothered,  for 

bread  and  wages, 
To  eat  dust  in  their  throats  and  die 

empty-hearted, 
For  a  little  handful  of  pay  on  a  few 

Saturday  nights. 

Carl   Sandburg, 


85 


DECEMBER  30 


Tuesday — 

"^EVER  lighter  was  a  leaf  upon 

a  linden  tree 
Than   Love   was  when  it  took  the 

flesh  and  blood  of  man. 
Therefore  is  Love  the  leader  of  the 

Lord's  folk  in  heaven  .  .  . 
In  thy  heart's  conscience,  in  the  deep 

well  of  thee, 
In  thy  heart  and  in  thy  head,  the 

mighty  Truth  is  born  .  .  . 
Therefore    I    counsel   you,   ye   rich, 

have  pity  on  the  poor. 

Langland:  The  Vision  of  Piers  the 

Plowman. 


86 


DECEMBER  31 


Wednesday — 

Ty^E  have  heard  the  valleys  groan 
^  ^      With  one  voice  and  manifold : 
Stone  is  crying  unto  stone, 
Mould  is  whispering  unto  mould. 
Hear  them  whisper,  hear  them  call, 
*'A11  for  one  and  one  for  all." 

Dig  the  well  and  raise  the  wall; 
For  the  nations  to  be  born. 
Root  away  the  bitter  thorn, 
Reap  and  sow  the  golden  corn. 

William    Vaughn    Moody:    The    Fire- 

B  ringer. 


87 


JANUARY  1 


Thursday — 

nPHE    winter    fails;    a   year   new- 
born 
Stands  by  the  Manger's  Altar-horn. 

***** 

The  stars  are  sj^inning  their  threads 
And  the  clouds  are  the  dust  that 
flies; 
And  the  suns  are  weaving  them  up 
For  the   time   when   the    sleepers 
shall  rise. 

The  weepers  are  learning  to  smile, 
And  laughter  to  glean  the  sighs, 

Burn  and  bury  the  care  and  guile 
For    the    day   when    the    sleepers 
shall  rise. 

George  Macdonald. 


38 


JANUARY  2 


Friday — 

OINCE  our  Redeemer,  the  Maker 
^^  of  every  creature,  was  pleased 
mercifully  to  assume  human  flesh  in 
order  to  break  the  chain  of  slavery 
in  which  we  were  held  captive,  and 
restore  us  to  our  pristine  liberty,  it 
is  right  that  men  whom  nature  from 
the  beginning  produced  free,  and 
whom  the  law  of  nations  has  sub- 
jected to  the  yoke  of  slavery,  should 
be  restored  by  the  benefit  of  man- 
umission to  the  liberty  in  which  they 
were  born. 

Gregory  the  Great. 


89 


JANUARY  3 


Saturday — 

T^ HOUGH  all  our  pleasure  and 
our  pride  have  paled, 

Though    all    the    yearnings    of   our 
youth  have  died, 

No  task  need  be  declined,  no  loss  be- 
wailed : 

Great  anarchies  are  still  to  be  defied. 

Truth  will  be  clearer  for  our  hav- 
ing failed, 

Hope  will  be  higher  for  our  having 
tried. 

Robinson  Smith. 


40 


CHRISTMASTIDE 

THE  FELLOWSHIP  OF  THE 
MYSTERY 

A  ND  when  they  were  come  into 
^^^     the  house,  they  saw  the  young 
Child  with  Mary  His  Mother. 

That  we  behold  the  fellowship  of  the 
mystery  whereby  the  Gentiles  are 
fellow-heirs  and  of  the  same  body 
with  them  of  the  Circumcision, 
Good  Lord,  we  thank  Thee. 


41 


JANUARY  4 


Sunday — 

OT  to  the  swift,  the  race; 

Not  to  the  strong,  the  fight: 
Xot  to  the  righteous,  perfect  grace; 
Not  to  the  wise,  the  hght. 


N 


But  often  faltering  feet 
Come  surest  to  the  goal; 
And  they  who  walk  in  darkness  meet 
The  sunrise  of  the  soul. 

The  truth  the  wise  men  sought 
Was  spoken  by  a  child; 
The  alabaster  box  was  brought 
In  trembling  hands  defiled. 

From  the  poems  of  Henry  J^an  Dyke. 
Copyright  1911.  By  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's    Sons.      By    permission    of    the 

publishers. 


\2 


JANUARY  5 


Monday — 

r\  BLESSED  JESU,  Thou  true 
^^  Light  of  our  souls  that  out- 
shinest  all  created  lights:  send  down 
Th.y  ray  from  above,  that  by  its 
power  we  may  continually  offer  to 
Thee  the  gold  of  burning  charity,  the 
frankincense  of  fervent  devotion,  and 
the  myrrh  of  perfect  mortification. 
O  send  out  Thy  light  and  Thy  truth 
that  they  may  lead  us  from  the  far 
off  land  of  sin  to  worship  in  Thy 
Presence. 

S.  C.  H.  C.  Manual. 


43 


JANUARY  6 


Tuesday,  Feast  of  the  Epipliany — 

T^PIPHANY  is  no  isolated  and 
'^  solitary  act.  It  is  a  process:  it 
is  eternally  typical  of  the  Divine 
character.  We  will  not  merely  look 
back  over  the  long  centuries  at  the 
manifestation  that  first  flashed  forth 
before  the  eyes  of  the  Three  Wise 
Men.  Here  and  now,  God  is  re- 
vealing Himself  afresh  before  our 
very  eyes.  .  •  .  For  us  too,  clogged 
and  choked  by  the  dismal  sand,  there 
is  a  star  that  guides,  a  God  who 
beckons.     If  only  we  would  see! 

Henry  Scott  Holland, 


44 


JANUARY  7 


Wednesday — 

T^HE  old  order  has  passed.  One 
great  good  which  has  come  out 
of  the  war  is  a  reassertion  of  the  es- 
sential equahty  of  mankind.  The 
war  was  a  great  leveller.  In  that 
crisis  we  all  had  to  put  our  shoulders 
to  the  wheel,  rich  and  poor,  high  and 
low,  and  with  all  former  rank  and 
distinction  swept  away  each  of  us 
fitted  into  the  groove  to  which  he  was 
best  suited.  It  is  in  that  spirit  that 
we  must  face  our  present  problems. 

William  Fellowes  Morgan. 


45 


JANUARY  8 


Thursday — 

nnHE  first  thing  the  Church  has 
to  do  is  in  the  face  of  competing 
sects  and  class  distinctions,  to  bear 
witness  to  the  essential  equality  and 
unity  of  the  whole  people.  This  she 
does  by  means  of  her  Sacrament  of 
Infant  Baptism.  .  .  .  Every  little 
human  being  born  into  London  is 
claimed  as  being  the  equal  with 
every  other  little  human  being. 

Stewart    Headlam. 


m 


JANUARY  9 


Friday — 

r^  HRISTIANITY  devotes  itself 
^-^  to  the  consecration  of  the  com- 
mon life  of  working  people.  .  .  .  But 
the  strength  of  this  early  intellectual 
system  of  Christianity  lay  in  its  un- 
academical  origin,  in  its  remaining  in 
very  close  relation  to  the  common 
life  of  common  people.  .  .  .  Chris- 
tianity in  matters  of  intellect  as 
in  social  matters  generally,  works 
upwards  from  below.  That  is  its 
essential  method.  ...  In  the  propaga- 
tion of  Christianity,  then,  the  Chris- 
tian does  not  weep,  but  rather  exults 
with  S.  Paul  and  Christ  Himself  if 
the  learned  of  any  community  hold 
aloof  or  reject  while  the  poor  accept. 

Bishop   Gore:   The   New    Theology   and 
the   Old  Religion. 


47 


JANUARY  10 


Saturday — 

A  ND  then  a  Child  acknowledging 

A  human  parent's  sway 
In  Joseph's  Work-shop  Thou  didst 

will 
To  labor  day  by  day. 

Grant  that  in  all  our  daily  toil 
That  Work-shop  we  may  view 
And  work  as  if  beside  Thee 
In  whatsoe'er  we  do. 

Episcopal  Female  Tract  Society. 


48 


EPIPHANY  I 


THE  WORKMAN  CHRIST 

A  ND  Jesus  increased  in  wisdom 
^^^     and  stature  and  in  favor  with 

God  and  man. 
Is  not  this  the  Carpenter? 

That  we  present  our  bodies  a  living 
sacrifice,  holy,  acceptable  unto 
God, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


49 


JANUARY  11 


Sunday — 

T  N  the  shop  of  Nazareth 

'*•    Pungent  cedar  haunts  the  breath. 

In  the  room  the  Craftsman  stands, 

Stands  and  reaches  out  His  hands. 

Let  the  shadows  veil  His  face 

If  you  must  and  dimly  trace 

His  workman's  tunic,  girt  with  bands 

At  the  waist.     But  the  Hands — 

Let  the  light  play  on  them; 

Marks  of  toil  lay  on  them. 

When  night  comes  and  I  turn 

From  my  shop  where  I  earn 

Daily  bread,  let  me  see 

Those  hard  Hands,  know  that  He 

Shared  my  lot  every  bit: 

Was  a  man  every  whit. 

Carpenter,  hard  like  Thine 

Is  this  hand — this  of  mine 

I  reach  out  gripping  Thee, 

Son  of  Man,  close  to  me 

Close  and  fast  fearlessly. 

Arthur  Pierce  Vaughan:  Hands  of  Toil. 

50 


JANUARY  12 


Moudcnf — 

/^tJil  Lord  chose  to  belong  to  the 
chiss  of  the  honorable  artizan, 
and  on  the  whole  Pie  chose  His 
apostles  from  the  same  class.  .  .  . 
He  succored  the  miserable,  while  He 
chose  his  instruments  from  among 
the  respectable,  but  from  the  class 
accustomed  to  live  hardly,  and  to  de- 
pend for  sustenance  on  daily  labor. 
To  this  class  He  gave  the  preroga- 
tive position  in  His  church. 

Bishop   Gore:  Sermon   to  Church   Con- 
gress, 1906. 


31 


JANUARY  13 


Tuesday — 

A  ND  I  worked  with  my  hands 
and  I  v/ished  to  work  and  I  wish 
firmly  that  all  the  other  brothers 
should  work  at  some  labor  which  is 
compatible  with  honesty.  Let  those 
who  know  not  how  to  work  learn, 
not  through  desire  to  receive  the 
price  of  labor,  but  for  the  sake  of 
example  and  to  repel  idleness. 

Writings  of  St.  Francis:  Tr.  by  Father 
Paschal  Robinson, 


58 


JANUARY  14. 


Wednesday — 

PRAYER  FOR  WORKING- 
MEN 

f~\  GOD,  thou  mightiest  worker  of 
^^  the  universe,  we  pray  Thee  for 
our  brothers,  the  industrial  workers 
of  the  nation.  Grant  the  organiza- 
tions of  labor  quiet  patience  and  pru- 
dence in  all  disputes  and  fairness  to 
see  the  other  side.  Raise  up  for  them 
still  more  leaders  of  able  mind  and 
large  heart.  May  the  upward  climb 
of  labor  bless  all  classes  of  our  nation, 
and  build  up  for  the  republic  of  the 
future  a  great  body  of  workers, 
strong  of  limb,  clear  of  mind,  fair  in 
temper,  glad  to  labor,  conscious  of 
their  worth  and  striving  together  for 
the  final  brotherhood  of  all  men. 
Walter  Rauschenbusch, 


53 


JANUARY  15 


Thursday — 

A  LL  social  evils  and  religious  er- 
rors  arise  out  of  the  pillage  of 
the  labourer  by  the  idler:  the  idler 
leaving  him  only  enough  to  live  on 
(and  even  that  miserably)  and  tak- 
ing all  the  rest  of  the  produce  of  his 
work  to  spend  in  his  own  luxury,  or 
in  the  toys  with  which  he  beguiles  his 
idleness. 

John   Rushin:  Fors   Clavigera,  LXXXIV. 


nn  HE    solution    of   the    industrial 

problem    involves    not    merely 

the  improvement  of  individuals  but 

a  fundamental  change  in  the  spirit  of 

the  industrial  system  itself. 

Christianity    and    Industrial   Problems: 
Archbishop's  Fifth  Committee  of  Inquiry. 


54i 


JANUARY  16 


Friday — 

t)  Y  Peter,"  quoth  a  plowman,  and 
forward  put  his  head, 

"I  know  Truth  as  well  as  scholar 
doth  his  book. 

Conscience  and  my  own  wit  led  me 
to  his  place, 

Made  me  his  man,  to  serve  him  ever- 
more. 

I  dig,  I  ditch,  I  do  all  that  Truth 
biddeth  me, 

He  is  gentle  as  a  lamb,  lovely  in 
speech ; 

If  ye  will  know  where  Truth 
dwelleth, 

I  will  show  you  the  way  home." 

Nor  by  words  nor  by  works  shalt 

thou  know  Charity, 
But  by  Piers  Plowman,  and  that  is 

Christ. 

Langland:  Vision  of  Piers  Plowman. 
55 


JANUARY  17 


Saturdaij — 

rry  HE  day  is  Thine,  Thou  Lord  of 
all  who  toil,  for  all  eternity  be- 
longeth  unto  Thee;  Thou  hast  but 
loaned  it  unto  me.  ^Master  Crafts- 
man, who  knewest  on  earth  the 
sweetness  of  earning  Thy  daily 
bread,  help  me  to  use  this  day 
worthily;  until  the  tasks  that  come 
from  Thy  hands  are  done  and  Thou 
biddest  me  lay  aside  my  tools,  take 
up  my  pilgrim's  staff,  and  fare  forth 
on  the  journey  that  leadeth  to  Thee. 

Amen. 


56 


EPIPHANY  II 

BROTHERLY  LOVE 

F>E  kindly  affectioned  one  to  an- 
other  with  brotherly  love;  dis- 
tributing   to    the    necessities    of 
saints. 

By  the  courtesy  whereby  Thou  didst 
turn  water  into  wine, 
May  we  be  given  to  hospitality. 


57 


JANUARY  18 


Sunday — 

'VrOT  alone,  not  alone  would  I  go 
to  my  rest,  in  the  heart  of  the 

love ; 
Were    I    tranced   in   the    innermost 

beauty,  the  flame  of  its  tenderest 

breath, 
I   would   still   hear   the   cry   of   the 

fallen,    recalling    me    back    from 

above. 
To  go  down  to  the  side  of  the  people 

who  weep  in  the  shadow  of  death. 

A,  E. 


58 


JANUARY  19 


Monday — 

A    ROBIN  redbreast  in  a  cage 
Puts  all  heaven  in  a  rage. 
A  dog  starved  at  his  master's  gate 
Predicts  the  ruin  of  the  State. 
A  skylark  wounded  in  the  wing 
A  cherubim  does  cease  to  sing. 
The  beggar's  rags  fluttering  in  air 
Does  to  lags  the  heavens  tear. 

Blake:  Auguries  of  Innocence. 


59 


JANUARY  20 


Tuesday — 

IT  ERE  AFTER  shalt  thou  wit 
which  are  the  seven  Avorks  of 
mercy.  The  first  work  of  mercy  is 
to  give  meat  to  the  hungry.  The 
tother  is  to  give  drink  to  the  thirsty. 
The  third  is  to  clothe  the  naked.  The 
fourth  is  to  harbour  the  harbour  less. 
The  fifth  is  to  visit  them  that  are  in 
prisoun.  The  sixth  is  to  comfort  the 
sick.  The  seventh  is  to  bury  the 
dead.  These  are  the  seven  works  of 
mercy  that  are  belonging  to  the  body. 

Richard  Rolle:  The  Mirror  of  St.  Ed- 
mund, Fourteenth   Century. 


60 


JANUARY  21 


JVednesday — 

E   who  is  in  a  ship  is  near  to 


shipwreck.  Therefore,  so  long 
as  thou  art  saiHng  with  a  favorable 
wind,  hold  out  a  hand  to  those  who 
are  suffering  shipwreck:  as  long  as 
thou  art  healthy  and  rich,  help  the 
unfortunate.  Man  has  nothing  so 
divine  as  beneficence.  Be  a  God  to 
the  unfortunate,  by  imitating  the 
mercy  of  God. 

Gregory  of  Nasiansus. 


61 


JANUARY  22 


Thursday — 

A/17'HEN  such  poor  men  and 
^  ^  women  as  are  clearly  in  the 
right,  and  have  no  one  to  help  them, 
show  us  the  reason  why  they  have 
no  money,  it  would  he  greatly  to  the 
honor  of  God  for  you  to  undertake 
their  cause,  from  the  impulse  of 
charity,  like  St.  Ives,  who  in  his  time 
was  the  lawyer  of  the  poor.  Con- 
sider that  the  deed  of  pity,  and  min- 
istering to  the  poor  with  those  facul- 
ties which  God  has  given  you,  is  very 
pleasing  to  God,  and  salvation  to 
your  soul. 

Letters  of  St.  Catherine  of  Siena. 


62 


JANUARY  2S 


Friday — 

T  UXURY  is  indeed  possible  in  the 
"^  future — innocent  and  exquisite; 
luxury  for  all  and  by  the  help  of  all; 
but  luxury  at  present  can  only  be 
enjoyed  by  the  ignorant;  the  crud- 
est man  living  could  not  sit  at  his 
feast  unless  he  sat  blindfold. 

John   Ruskin:    Unto    This   Last. 


63 


JANUARY  24 


Saturday — 

T    ORD,  make  us  all  love  all:  that 
when  we  meet 

Even  myriads  of  earth's  myriads  at 
Thy  Bar, 

We  may  be  glad  as  all  true  lovers 
are 

Who  having  parted,  count  reunion 
sweet.  .  .  . 

Oh,  if  our  brother's  blood  cry  out  at 
us. 

How  shall  we  meet  Thee  Who  hast 
loved  us  all, 

Thee  v/hom  we  never  loved,  not  lov- 
ing him? 

The    unloving    cannot    chant    with 
Seraphim, 

Bear  harp  of  gold,  or  palm  victori- 
ous. 

Christina  Rossetti. 


64 


EPIPHANY  III 

ABOVE  THE  BATTLE  FIELD 

T  F  thine  enemy  hunger,  feed  him; 
-■•        if  he  thirst,  give  him  drink. 

That  we  live  peaceably  with  all  men, 
as  much  as  lieth  in  us,  and  that  we 
overcome  evil  with  good, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


65 


JANUARY  25 


Sunday — 

\TEi  have  heard  that  it  was  said, 
Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbor 
and  hate  thine  enemy:  but  I  say 
unto  you,  Love  your  enemies  and 
pray  for  them  that  persecute  you; 
that  ye  may  be  sons  of  your  Father 
which  is  in  heaven:  .  .  .  For  if  ye 
love  them  that  love  you  what  reward 
have  ye?  do  not  even  the  publicans 
the  same  ?  .  .  .  Ye  therefore  shall  be 
perfect,  as  your  Heavenly  Father  is 
perfect. 

S,  Matthew,  V.  Jf3-J^8, 


66 


JANUARY  26 


Monday — 

T^HE  Lord  says  in  the  gospel, 
Love  your  enemies,  etc.  He 
truly  loves  his  enemy  who  does  not 
grieve  because  of  the  wrong  done  to 
himself,  but  who  is  afflicted  for  love 
of  God  because  of  the  sin  on  his 
brother's  soul,  and  who  shows  his 
love  by  his  works. 

Writings  of  S.  Francis:  Tr.  by  Father 
Paschal  Robinson. 


67 


JANUARY  27 


Tuesday — 

A  ND  so  thy  God  saith  to  thee, 
"See,  I  do  avenge  thee,  I  do 
slay  thine  enemy.  I  take  away  that 
which  makes  him  evil,  I  preserve 
that  which  constitutes  him  a  man: 
now  if  I  shall  have  made  him  a  good 
man,  have  I  not  slain  thine  enemy 
and  made  him  thy  friend?"  So  ask 
in  what  thou  art  asking  not  that  the 
men  may  perish,  but  that  these  their 
enmities  may  perish.  For  if  thou 
pray  for  this  that  the  man  may  die: 
it  is  the  prayer  of  one  wicked  man 
against  another;  and  when  thou  dost 
say  "Slay  the  wicked  one,"  God  an- 
swereth  thee,  "Which  of  you?" 

St.  Augustine. 


68 


JANUARY  28 


Wednesday — 

T^ONE  can  deny  that  wide  di- 
visions  exist:  angry  workmen 
over  against  angry  employers;  cities 
of  the  poor,  grimly  monotonous,  be- 
side the  quarters  of  the  rich;  large 
bodies  of  labor  brought  by  a  sud- 
den frost  to  famine,  while  capital 
cannot  find  employment;  whole 
tracts  of  human  beings  .  .  .  with- 
out insight  into  each  other's  fears 
and  hopes:  here  are  the  divisions, 
fruitless  and  deepening,  created  by 
our  civilization,  half  ignored  by  our 
politics,  calling  aloud  to  our  religion. 
.  .  .  The  reconciliation  of  estranged 
men, — that  is  the  first  thing  we  have 
to  work  for. 

T.  C,  Fry, 


JANUARY  29 


Thursday — 

^HE  fact  that  such  a  calamity 
as  this  world  war  could  come 
compels  a  rigorous  scrutiny  of  the 
underlying  principles  of  our  civiliza- 
tion. It  is  a  summons  to  the  Chris- 
tian church  to  challenge  a  social 
order  based  upon  mutual  distrust 
and  selfish  competition.  It  is  a 
summons  in  penitence  to  renounce 
and  oppose  the  principles  of  national 
aggrandizement  at  the  expense  of 
other  peoples,  of  economic  selfishness 
seeking  to  control  the  world's  re- 
sources, trade  routes,  and  markets. 
It  is  a  summons  to  the  Christian 
discipleship  to  bring  forth  the  fruits 
of  repentance  in  labor  for  a  new 
world  order. 

The  Church  in  Time  of  War.     Federal 

Council    of    Churches    of    Christ    in 

America,  1917, 

70 


JANUARY  30 


Friday — 

HE  first  thing  to  do  is  to  pray 


T 


sensibly  and  deeply,  not  for 
material  victory  over  a  material  foe, 
but  for  spiritual  victory  over  a 
spiritual  foe;  that  this  nation  and 
all  nations  may  become  worthy  of 
the  extended  life  they  crave;  that 
the  diabolic  spirit  of  war,  whether  it 
manifests  itself  in  the  ghastly  con- 
vulsion of  shot  and  shell,  or  whether, 
vampire-like,  it  slowly  drains  the 
life-blood  of  a  nation  by  its  bitter 
class  jealousy,  its  materialism,  its 
mammon-worship,  may  be  forever 
banished  from  our  lives. 

E,  M,   Venahles. 


71 


JANUARY  31 


Saturday — 

nn  HERE   is   no  warmer  weather 
^        than  after  watery  clouds, 
Nor  is  love  sweeter  nor  are  friends 

dearer, 
Than   after  war  and  wrack,   when 

Love  and  Peace  have  gotten  the 

victory. 

Langland:  The  Vision  of  Piers  the 

Plowman, 


72 


SEPTUAGESIMA 


A  LIVING  WAGE 

l^RIEND,  I  do  thee  no  wrong. 
Take  that  thine  is  and  go  thy 
way;  I  will  give  unto  this  last 
even  as  unto  thee. 

For  grace  to  secure  a  living  wage  for 

all  men, 
We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 

Lord. 


73 


FEBRUARY  1 


S  mid  ay — 

^HE  best  labour  always  has  been, 
and  is,  as  all  labour  ought  to  be, 
paid  by  an  invariable  standard. 

"What!"  the  reader,  perhaps,  an- 
swers amazedly;  "pay  good  and  bad 
workmen  alike?" 

Certainly.  .  .  .  The  natural  and 
right  system  respecting  all  labour  is, 
that  it  should  be  paid  at  a  fixed  rate, 
but  the  good  workman  employed  and 
the  bad  workman  unemployed 

John  Ruskin:  Unto  this  Last. 


jC^ROM  each  according  to  his  capac- 

it; 
needs. 


ity;    to    each    according    to    his 


Saint  Simon, 


74 


FEBRUARY  2 


Monday,  The  Puiijication — 

ly/T  Y  soul  doth  magnify  the  Lord ; 
and  my  spirit  hath  rejoiced  in 
God  my  Saviour. 

For  He  hath  regarded  the  lowh- 
ness  of  His  handmaiden. 

For  behold,  from  henceforth  all 
generations  shall  call  me  blessed.  .  .  . 

He  hath  showed  strength  with  His 
arm;  He  hath  scattered  the  proud  in 
the  imagination  of  their  hearts. 

He  hath  put  down  the  mighty 
from  their  seat;  and  hath  exalted 
the  humble  and  meek. 

He  hath  filled  the  hungry  with 
good  things;  and  the  rich  He  hath 
sent  empty  away. 

The  Blessed  Virgin. 


75 


FEBRUARY  S 


Tuesday — 

T  F  the  principle  proclaimed  by  the 
'^  Church  that  the  reward  of  labour 
is  the  first  charge  upon  industry  is 
really  taken  seriously,  we  shall  have 
made  a  big  step  towards  settling  the 
whole  question.  Not  long  ago  al- 
most any  body  of  employers  would 
have  said  that  the  wages  which  can 
be  paid  must  depend  upon  the  price 
that  is  secured  for  the  goods.  Now, 
we  believe  that  most  big  employers 
would  say  that  the  price  must  be 
fixed  for  goods  so  as  to  make  pos- 
sible the  payment  of  a  proper  wage. 
Clearly  the  change  is  fundamental. 
The  Challenge,  1918, 


76 


FEBRUARY  4, 


Wednesday — 

TT  was  largely  because  the  Church 
•*•  appeared  as  a  society  making  the 
welfare  of  all  its  members  its  con- 
trolling principle  in  the  acquisition 
and  distribution  of  wealth  that  it 
made  the  great  progress  which  his- 
tory records  in  the  world  of  the 
Roman  Empire.  ...  It  is  time  that 
the  Christian  Church  should  make 
clear  to  itself  the  nature  of  the  de- 
mand for  the  reconstruction  of  so- 
ciety which  is  at  present  urged  upon 
us.  .  .  .  It  is  bound  to  consider 
whether  the  charge  against  the  pres- 
ent constitution  and  principles  of  the 
industrial  world  and  the  present  di- 
vision of  the  profits  of  industry  is  a 
just  charge. 

Report   of   Joint   Commission    to    Con- 
vocation of  Canterbury,  1907. 


77 


FEBRUARY  5 


Thursday — 

TTAVE  ye  founded  your  thrones 
and  altars,  then 

On  the  bodies  and  souls  of  living 
men? 

And  think  ye  that  building  shall  en- 
dure, 

Which  shelters  the  noble  and  crushes 
the  poor? 

James  Russell  Lowell. 


VTEW  YORK  CITY  has  fifty- 
^^  five  homes  maintained  for  girls 
whose  wages  will  not  allow  them  to 
live  in  ordinary  dwellings. 

The  New  Spirit  in  Industry:  F.  Ernest 

Johnson. 


78 


FEBRUARY  6 


Friday — 

np  HE  first  principle  of  the  Labor 
Party  ...  in  significant  con- 
trast with  those  of  the  Capitalist 
system — is  the  securing  to  every 
member  of  the  community  in  good 
times  and  bad  alike  (and  not  only 
to  the  strong  and  able,  the  well-born 
or  fortunate)  of  all  the  requisites  of 
healthy  life  and  worthy  citizenship. 
This  is  in  no  sense  a  class  proposal. 
Such  an  amount  of  social  protection 
to  every  individual  affords  the  only 
complete  safeguard  against  that  in- 
sidious degradation  of  the  standard  of 
life  which  is  the  worst  economic  and 
social  catastrophe  to  which  any  com- 
munity can  be  subjected. 

Reconstruction  Program,  British  Labor 

Party,  1918, 


TO 


FEBRUARY  7 


A 


Saturday — 

LL  good  Christians  believe,  of 
course,  that  they  ought  to  love 
their   neighbors   as   themselves;   but 
there   are  many   among   them  who 
need  help  in  answering  the  question, 
"Who  is  my  neighbor?"     The  idea 
that  the  operatives  in  his  factory,  the 
brakemen  on  his  freight  trains,  the 
miners    in    his    coal    mines    are    his 
neighbors,  is  an  idea  that  does  not 
come  home  to  many  a  good  Chris- 
tian. .  .  .  Over  the  entrance  to  the 
thronging  avenues  and  the  humming 
workshops  of  the  industrial  reahn, 
an  un-moral  science  has  written,  in 
iron  letters:  "All  love  abandon,  ye 
that  enter  here!"  .  .  .  The  first  busi- 
ness of  ibe  Church  of  God  is  to  preach 
that  legend  Wwri,  auH  to  put  in  place 
01  It:      lour  wage-worker  is  your 
nearest  neighbor." 

Washington,  Ghdden. 
80 


I 


SEXAGESIMA 


CHRISTIAN  HEROISM 

N  labors  more  abundant,  in  stripes 
above  measure,  in  prisons  more 
frequent,  in  deaths  oft. 


For  power  to  clear  the  ground  from 
the  cares  of  this  world  and  the  de- 
ceitfulness  of  riches, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us.  Good 
Lord. 


81 


FEBRUARY  8 


Sunday — 

/CHRISTIANITY  is  not  a  school 
^^  for  the  teaching  of  moral  virtue, 
the  polishing  our  manners  or  form- 
ing us  to  live  a  life  of  this  world  with 
decency  and  gentility.  It  implies  an 
entire  change  of  life.  .  .  .  Death  is 
not  more  certainly  a  separation  of  our 
souls  from  our  bodies  than  the  Chris- 
tian life  is  a  separation  of  our  souls 
from  worldly  tempers. 

William    Law:    Christian    Perfection. 


82 


FEBRUARY  9 


Monday — 

T/l/'ITHIN  the  short  earthly  years 
^  ^  during  which  the  Life  passed 
before  men,  there  is  always  the  spirit 
of  adventure.  It  begins  in  boyhood 
among  the  Temple  doctors.  He  has 
no  home:  no  regular  and  secluded 
routine.  No!  He  wanders  at  ran- 
dom: He  depends  upon  charity. 
Then  He  adventures  Himself.  He 
calls  upon  others  to  take  risks  too. 
That  is  the  very  soul  of  the  de- 
mands He  makes.  .  .  .  "Follow 
Me.'*    Adventurers  all. 

If  only  here  and  there  men  would 
...  do  big  and  bold  and  rash  deeds 
in  the  Name  and  for  the  sake  of 
Him  who  "made  Himself  of  no 
reputation  and  took  upon  Him  the 
form  of  a  servant  and  was  made  in 
the  likeness  of  man,"  what  might  not 

happen?  Henry  Scott  Holland. 

83 


FEBRUARY  10 


Tuesday — ■ 

"C^VERY  degree  of  luxury  hath 
some  connection  with  evil;  and 
if  those  who  profess  to  be  disciples 
of  Christ,  and  are  looked  upon  as 
leaders  of  the  people,  have  that  in 
them  which  was  also  in  Christ,  and 
so  stand  separate  from  every  wrong 
way,  it  is  a  means  of  help  to  the 
weaker. 

Journal  of  John  Woolman,  1757. 


84 


FEBRUARY  11 


Wednesday — 

/^URS,  by  his  birth  beneath  our 
^^     western  sky, 
Ours,  by  the  flag  he  died  to  save, 
Ours,  by  the  home-fields  of  his  labor, 

and  by 
The  home-earth  of  his  grave! 

But  hark!   as   if   some   league-long 
barrier  broke  .  .  . 

I  hear  the  voices  of  the  outland  folk 

From  sea  to  sea — yea,  rolling  over- 
sea: 

"You  shall  not  limit  his  large  glory 
thus, 

You   shall   not   mete   his   greatness 
with  a  span! 

This  man  belongs  to  us. 

Gentile  and  Jew,  Teuton  and  Celt 
and  Russ 

And  whatso  else  we  be! 

This  man  belongs  to  Man!" 

Helen  Gray  Cone:  Ode  to  Lincoln, 
85 


FEBRUARY  12 


Thursday,  Lincoln  s  Birthday — 

rriHE  dogmas  of  the  quiet  past 
are  inadequate  to  the  stormy 
f)resent.  The  occasion  is  piled  high 
with  difficulty  and  we  must  rise  to 
the  occasion.  As  our  case  is  new,  so 
we  must  think  anew  and  act  anew. 
We  must  disenthrall  ourselves  and 
then  we  shall  save  our  country. 

Abraham  Lincoln. 


XTO  personal  significance  or  in- 
^^  significance  can  spare  one  or 
another  of  us.  The  fiery  trial  through 
which  we  are  passing  will  light  us 
down  in  honor  or  dishonor  to  the 
latest  generation.  .  .  .  We  shall 
nobly  save  or  meanly  lose  the  last, 
best  hope  of  earth. 

Abraham  Lincoln. 


86 


FEBRUARY  13 


Friday — 

TT  was  not  a  mere  desire  to  bring 
relief  to  those  in  trouble  that 
prompted  Lincoln's  pardons  and 
made  him  unable  to  say  no  to  a  re- 
quest. It  was  rather  that  extraor- 
dinary sympathy  which  compels  men 
to  live  the  suffering  of  their  fel- 
lows, to  recognize  and  accept  as 
genuine  the  faint  glimmerings  of 
penitence  in  the  criminal,  to  at- 
tribute to  others  as  their  own,  vir- 
tues reflected  from  itself.  Without 
this  quality  a  master  mind  may  be 
able  to  lead  the  strong  and  perhaps 
to  dominate  the  weak — never  to  lead 
the  weak  into  that  independent 
strength  which  is  born  only  of  dar- 
ing trust  and  irrepressible  expect- 
ancy. 

Bishop  Brent:  The  Inspiration  of  Re- 
sponsibility.    Longmans. 

87 


FEBRUARY  14 


Saturday — 

nn  HE  caviler  pauses  and  shrugs 
^  ...  What  we  outsiders  need 
in  order  to  convince  us  that  yoii 
Christians  have  indeed  "broken 
through  into  reahty/'  is  to  see  those 
who  can  command  luxury,  choosing 
poverty  so  long  as  their  brothers 
want;  those  who  mi^ht  rule  men,  in- 
dustrially or  polliically,  becoming 
true  servants  of  the  democracy.  It 
is  to  find  Christians  voting  in  public 
matters  steadily  against  their  own 
class-interests,  and  in  private  life 
literally  caring  more  to  share  than  to 
own.  This  spectacle,  we  grant,  would 
be  an  effective  proof  of  a  divine  re- 
ligion. .  .  .  Obvious  economic  sacri- 
fice on  the  part  of  Christians  at  large 
is  the  only  sound  means  to  silence  the 
reiterated  sneer  of  the  materialistic 
radical  who  threatens  our  civilization. 

Vida  ID.  Scudder:  The  Church  and  the 

Hour, 
88 


QUINQUAGESIMA 

LOVE 

np  HOUGH  I  bestow  all  my  goods 
'^       to    feed   the   poor,    and   have 
not  Love,  it  profiteth  me  nothing. 

That  we  may  receive  our  sight, 
We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


89 


FEBRUARY  1. 


Sunday — 

T    BESEECH  Thee  O  Lord,  that 

-*■    the  fiery  and   sweet   strength  of 

Thy  love  may  absorb  my  soul  from 

all  things   that   are  under   Heaven, 

that  I  may  die  for  love  of  Thy  love 

as  Thou  didst  deign  to  die  for  love 

of  my  love. 

Writings  of  St.  Francis:     Tr.  Fr.  Pas- 
chal Robinson* 


90 


FEBRUARY  16 


Monday — 

/^UR  Lord  asks  but  two  things  of 
^^  us:  love  for  Him  and  for  our 
neighbor.  ...  I  think  the  most  cer- 
tain sign  that  we  keep  these  two 
commandments  is  that  we  have  a 
genuine  love  for  others.  We  can- 
not know  whether  we  love  God,  al- 
though there  may  be  strong  reasons 
for  thinking  so,  but  there  can  be  no 
doubt  about  whether  we  love  our 
neighbor  or  no.  Be  sure  that  in  pro- 
portion as  you  advance  in  fraternal 
charity,  you  are  increasing  in  your 
love  of  God.  .  .  .  Human  nature  is 
so  evil  that  we  could  not  feel  a  perfect 
charity  for  our  neighbor  unless  it 
were  rooted  in  the  love  of  God. 

St.  Teresa:  The  Interior  Castle, 


fl 


FEBRUARY  17 


Tuesday-^ 

r>UT  thilke  Love,  which  that  is 
"■^  Within  a  mannes  heart  affirmed 
And  stands  of  Charity  confirmed, 
Such  love  is  goodly  for  to  have; 
Such  love  may  the  soul  amend — 
The  High  God  such  love  us  send. 
Forthwith  the  remenant  of  grace. 
So  that  above  in  thilke  place 
Where  resteth  Love  and  alle  Peace, 
Our  joy  may  be  endeless. 

John  Gorver:  Confessio  Amantis. 


92 


FEBRUARY  18 


Ash  Wednesday — 

TS  not  this  the  fast  that  I  have 
-■•  chosen?  to  loose  the  bands  of 
wickedness,  to  undo  the  heavy  bur- 
dens, and  to  let  the  oppressed  go 
free,  and  that  ye  break  every  yoke? 
Is  it  not  to  deal  thy  bread  to  the 
hungry,  and  that  thou  bring  the  poor 
that  are  cast  out  to  thy  house?  when 
thou  seest  the  naked,  that  thou  cover 
him;  and  that  thou  hide  not  thyself 
from  thine  own  flesh? 

Isaiah,  LVIII. 


SI 


FEBRUARY  IQ 


Thursday — 

rj^ORASMUCH  therefore  as  your 
^  treading  is  upon  the  poor,  and  ye 
take  from  him  burdens  of  wheat:  ye 
have  built  houses  of  hewn  stone,  but 
ye  shall  not  dwell  in  them;  ye  have 
planted  pleasant  vineyards,  but  ye 
shall  not  drink  wine  of  them.  For 
I  know  your  manifold  transgressions 
and  your  mighty  sins :  they  afflict  the 
just,  they  take  a  bribe,  and  they  turn 
aside  the  poor  in  the  gate  from  their 
right.  Therefore  the  Lord,  the  God 
of  hosts,  the  Lord,  saith  thus;  Wail- 
ing shall  be  in  all  streets;  and  they 
shall  say  in  all  the  highways,  Alas, 
alas!  .  .  .  Shall  not  the  day  of  the 
Lord  be  darkness,  and  not  light  ?  even 
very  dark,  and  no  brightness  in  it? 

Amos,  V. 


94 


FEBRUARY  20 


Friday — 

/^  GOD  of  our  fathers,  we  desire 
^-^  to  make  before  Thee  a  solemn 
act  of  penitence  on  behalf  of  the 
Church.  We  her  children  have  done 
little  to  further  Thy  Kingdom  on 
earth  by  the  establishment  of  social 
justice.  Pardon  all  indifference  to- 
ward the  sufferings  of  those  who 
labor;  pardon  all  bitterness  toward 
those  who  abound.  Forgive  us  for 
having  allowed  injustice  and  oppres- 
sion to  remain  too  often  unrebuked 
and  unredressed.  We  confess  our 
sins  and  shortcomings  with  grief  and 
shame:  humbly  beseeching  Thee  to 
forgive  us  and  to  enlighten  us,  and 
to  endue  Thy  Holy  Church  with 
power  to  break  every  yoke  and  to 
let  the  oppressed  go  free.  Through 
Jesus  Christ  Our  Lord.    Amen. 

S.  C.  H.  C.  Manual. 
95- 


FEBRUARY  21 


Saturday — 

ND  will  ye  sit  in  sackcloths 
And  will  ye  weep  and  pray? 
And  will  ye  bow  your  ashy  heads 
That  broken-bulrush  way? 


A 


What  sins  be  these  ye  flee  from? 

What  vrrong  do  ye  repent? 
Now  think  ye  if  ye  cry,  Lord,  Lord, 

That  ye  have  kept  His  Lent? 

Ah,  choose  to  feed  the  hungry! 

Last  night  ye  stole  his  bread; 
Ah,  choose  to  set  the  bondman  free, 

His  price  is  on  your  head. 

Ah,  choose  to  lift  the  burden 
Your  brother  still  must  bear. 

Undo  the  cords,  lift  off  the  load. 
'Tis  yours,  ye  laid  it  there. 

•     ■  Florence  Converse, 


96 


LENT  I 


THE  FAST 

V.  As  dying  and  behold  we  live; 
as  poor  yet  making  many  rich;  as 
having  nothing  and  yet  possessing  all 
things. 

R.  Now  is  the  accepted  time. 

From  the  temptations  which  beset 


hrist  in  the  wilderness, 

Good  Lord  deliver  us. 


9T 


FEBRUARY  22 


Sunday,  Washington's  Birthday — 

T  T  is  the  pregnant  idealism  of  the 
^  multitude  which  gives  power  to 
the  makers  of  great  nations,  other- 
wise the  prophets  of  civilization  are 
helpless  as  preachers  in  the  desert 
and  solitary  places. 

A.  E.:  Imaginations  and  Reveries. 


nn  HERE  can  be  no  final  goal 
^  for  human  institutions;  the 
best  are  those  that  most  encourage 
progress  toward  others  still  better. 
Without  effort  and  change,  human 
life  cannot  remain  good.  It  is  not 
a  finished  Utopia  that  we  ought  to 
desire,  but  a  world  where  imagination 
and  hope  are  alive  and  active. 

Bertrand  Russell:  Political  Ideals 


08 


FEBRUARY  23 


Monday — 

TTNWRAP     thyself     of     many 
^^      things  and  fine, 
He  who  with  Christ  would  dine 
Shall     see     no     table     bounteously 

spread, 
But  fish  and  barley  bread. 
Where  didst  thou  read  Our  Saviour 

bade  thee  pray, 
"Give  us  our  sumptuous  fare  from 

day  to  day"? 

Francis  Bourdillon. 


99 


FEBRUARY  24 


Tuesday — 

I/ITERE  there  no  self-will,  there 
would  also  be  no  ownership. 
In  Heaven  there  is  no  ownership; 
hence  there  are  found  content,  true 
peace,  and  all  blessedness.  If  any 
one  there  took  upon  him  to  call  any- 
thing his  own,  he  would  straightway 
be  thrust  out  into  hell,  and  would 
become  an  evil  spirit.  .  .  .  He  who 
hath  something  or  seeketh  or  longeth 
to  have  something  of  his  own,  is 
himself  a  slave,  and  he  who  hath 
nothing  of  his  own,  nor  seeketh  nor 
longeth  thereafter,  is  free  and  at 
large  and  in  bondage  to  none. 

Johann  Tauler:  Theologica  Germanica. 


100 


FEBRUARY  25 


Wednesday — 

CAME   those   gray  gowns   from 
Italy. 
And  this  was  all  they  had  to  teach: 
Thrice  blessed  is  Saint  Poverty; 

As  poor  yet  making  many  rich, 
As  having  nought,  possessing  all. 
Stitchless,  to  folk  without  a  stitch 

They  sang  this  life  a  madrigal; 
And  why  Our  Lady  chose  an  inn, 
And  bare  her  Son  in  oxen  stall. 


Thus  Francis  mixt  the  stirrup-cup, 
And  sped  our  Brother  Bonaccord 
To  proffer  it  for  Hodge  to  sup : 

And  Hodge  drank  deep  and  prais'd 
the  Lord. 

Maurice  Hewlett:  The  Song  of  the  Plow. 


101 


FEBRUARY  26 


Thursday — 

IVT  INE  is  all  the  Saxon  land, 
-^  ^      Burgundy  I  hold  in  my  hand, 
River  and  lake  and  sea  and  spring, 
Hurrying  winds   and  birds   on  the 
wing 

Sun,  moon,  sky,  and  stars  of  night 
Hearken  up  there  in  the  height 

Are  mine,  all  mine,  dear  delight, 
My  singers  sing  for  me. 

Now  since  it's  pleased  the  King  of 

Kings 
To  Heaven  I  mount  on  lusty  wings. 

To  make  me  lord  o'er  many  things 
My  path  is  straight  and  free. 

Jacopone  da  Todi:  Sons  of  Francis. 
Tr.  Anne  Macdonnell. 

102 


FEBRUARY  27 


Friday — 

T    HAVE  a  golden  ball, 

A  big  bright  shining  one, 
Pure  gold;  and  it  is  all 
Mine.    It  is  the  sun. 

I  have  a  silver  ball, 
A  white  and  glistering  stone 
That  other  people  call 
The  moon; — my  very  own. 

And  everything  that's  mine 
Is  yours,  and  yours,  and  yours, — 
The  shimmer  and  the  shine! 
Let's  lock  our  wealth  out-doors  I 

Florence   Converse:  A   Masque  of  Sibyls. 


103 


FEBRUARY  28 


Saturday — 

IT  AIL,  Queen  Wisdom!  May 
^  ^  the  Lord  save  thee  with  thy 
sister,  holy  pure  Simphcity!  O  Lady, 
Holy  Poverty,  may  the  Lord  save 
thee  with  thy  sister  Holy  Humility! 
O  Lady,  Holy  Charity,  may  the 
Lord  save  thee  with  thy  sister,  Holy 
Obedience!  O  all  ye  most  holy  vir- 
tues, may  the  Lord  from  whom  you 
proceed  and  come,  save  you!  There 
is  absolutely  no  man  in  the  whole 
world  who  can  possess  one  among 
you,  unless  he  first  die. 

Writings  of  St.  Francis.     Tr.  Fr.  Pas- 
chal Robinson. 


104 


LENT  II 


THE  SINS  OF  THE  CHURCH 

T^OR  this  is  the  will  of  God,  even 
your  sanctification. 

From  all  uncleanness  and  injustice, 
Good  Lord  deliver  us. 


105 


FEBRUARY  29 


Sunday — 

AND  I  will  come  near  to  you  to 
^^^  judgment;  and  I  will  be  a  swift 
witness  against  the  sorcerers,  and 
against  the  adulterers,  and  against 
false  swearers,  and  against  those  that 
oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages, 
the  widow,  and  the  fatherless,  and 
that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his 
right,  and  fear  not  me,  saith  the 
Lord  of  hosts. 

Malachi,  III. 


106 


MARCH  1 


Monday — 

/^NE  stoopeth  over  thee 

^^     From  Whom  thou  mayst  not 

flee. 
His  gracious  Form  and  holy  Head 
As  very  man's  are  fashioned, 
And  pitiful  exceedingly 
His  Face  and  full  of  clemency. 
"I    am   come    down   the    Heavenly 

Stair," 
He  saith,  "to  make  the  soiled  fair." 
He  saith,  **to  make  the  soiled  fair." 
George  Seymour  HollingSj  S.  S.  J.  E. 


107 


MARCH  2 


Tuesday — 

/^URS  is  the  sin  of  a  Christendom 
^^  which  confesses  Christ  but  will 
not  have  Him  to  reign;  which  has 
limited  His  authority  to  private  oc- 
casions, and  has  excluded  it  in  pub- 
lie  and  social  affairs;  a  Christendom 
which  has  told  Christ  to  mind  His 
own  business  (which  is  the  saving  of 
souls),  and  to  let  societ}^  and  the 
world  alone.  German}^  perfected 
that  sin;  are  we  clear  of  it? 

H.  J.  Wotherspoon. 


108 


MARCH  3 


Wednesday — 

nnilE  confession  of  sin  should 
above  all,  in  collective  worship, 
apply  to  collective  sin, — to  that  sin- 
fulness of  society  which  Christ  would 
denounce  if  he  came  again  among  us. 
The  vigor  of  that  denunciation 
would,  I  expect,  eclipse  anything 
now  heard  from  pulpits;  though  it 
would,  I  believe,  take  an  unpopular 
and  unexpected  direction, ...  it  would 
attack  the  heartless  and  contented 
acquiescence  in  conditions  which  de- 
base the  soul  of  a  people  and  erect 
the  extravagant  luxury  of  a  few  on 
the  grinding  poverty  of  many. 

We  are  verily  guilty  concerning 
our  brother. 

Sir  Oliver  Lodge. 


lor 


MARCH  4 


Thursday — 

I^OT  the  least  tragic  aspect  of 
^^  Church  life  today,  is  the  fact 
that  the  world  has  come  practically 
to  ignore  us  in  so  far  as  any  power 
and  right  to  utter  ourselves  in  re- 
gard to  the  constitution  of  the  social 
order  goes.  It  is  taken  for  granted 
that  we  have  nothing  to  say,  nothing 
to  contribute.  Men  turn  everywhere 
else  before  they  turn  to  the  Church 
for  policies  and  plans  for  the  re- 
building of  a  bewildered  society. 
This  surely  ought  to  be  felt  as  a 
terrible  reproach  resting  upon  us  all. 
The  work  of  reconstruction  ought 
to  be  that  of  all  others  in  which  the 
Church  leads  the  world. 

The  Commonwealth. 


110 


MARCH  5 


Friday — 

rpHE  rich  cry  to  one  another: 
^  "The  poor  are  our  curse;  we 
must  get  rid  of  poverty."  They  do 
not  say  to  one  another:  "We  are  the 
curse,  with  our  luxuries,  sordidness, 
pride,  vanity  and  selfishness."  We 
have  been  called  upon  again  and 
again  to  sit  on  committees  and  con- 
sider the  sins  of  the  Bowery.  Who 
calls  a  meeting  to  consider  the  sins 
of  Fifth  Avenue? 

Bishop  Huntington. 


in 


MARCH  6 


Saturday — 

r\  GOD,  Who  didst  send  Thy 
^^  word  to  speak  in  the  prophets 
and  live  in  Thy  Son,  and  appoint 
Thy  Church  to  be  a  witness  of  di- 
vine things  in  all  the  world:  revive 
the  purity  and  deepen  the  power  of 
its  testimony;  and  through  the  din 
of  earthly  interests  and  the  storm  of 
human  passions,  let  it  make  the  still 
small  voice  of  Thy  Spirit  only  felt. 
By  the  cleansing  Spirit  of  Thy  Son, 
make  this  world  a  fitting  forecourt  to 
that  sanctuary  not  made  with  hands, 
^vhere  our  life  is  hid  with  Christ  in 
God.     Amen. 

James  Martineau, 


112 


LENT  III 

A  Week  'with  St.  Chrysostom 

COVETOUSNESS 

OUT  covetousness,  let  it  not  be 
once  named  among  you  as  be- 
cometh  saints;  for  no  covetous  man 
hath  any  inheritance  in  the  King- 
dom of  God. 

From      covetousness,      which     is 
idolatry, 

Good  Lord,  deliver  us. 


113 


MARCH  7 


Sunday — 

^HE  covetous  man  also  is  a  thief 
and  robber  far  worse  than  the 
other,  by  how  much  he  is  also  more 
tyrannical.      He,    indeed,    by   being 
concealed,  and  by  making  his  attack 
in  the  night,  cuts  off  much  of  the 
audacity  of  the  attempt  as  if  he  were 
ashamed  and  feared  to  sin.    But  the 
other,  having  no  sense  of  shame,  with 
open  face  in  the  middle  of  the  mar- 
ket-place, steals  the  property  of  all, 
being  at  once  a  thief  and  a  tyrant. 
He   does   not   break  through  walls 
nor  open  a  chest,  nor  tear  off  seals. 
But  he   does   things  more   insolent 
than    these.  .  .  .  Let    us    therefore, 
both  rich  and  poor,  cease  from  tak- 
ing the  property  of  others. 

Saint  Chrijidstom. 


114i 


MARCH  8 


Monday — 

TTOW  shall  we  put  off  our  dis- 
honest  gain?  He  that  wishes 
to  put  off  covetous  gain  does  not 
give  a  little  out  of  a  great  deal,  but 
many  times  more  than  he  has  robbed 
and  he  ceases  from  robbing.  But 
thou,  taking  wrongfully  ten  thou- 
sand talents,  if  thou  give  a  few 
drachmas  thinkest  thou  hast  restored 
the  whole,  and  art  affected  as  if 
thou  hast  given  more. 

Saint  Chrysostom. 


116 


MARCH  9 


Tuesday — 

T  T  is  not  possible  to  serve  God  and 
-■■  Mammon,  for  Mammon  giveth 
commands  contradictory  to  God. 
The  one  says,  "Give  to  them  that 
need;"  the  other,  "Plunder  the  goods 
of  the  needy."  Christ  saith,  "For- 
give them  that  wrong  thee;"  the 
other,  "Prepare  snares  against  those 
that  do  thee  no  wrong."  Christ  saith, 
"Be  merciful  and  kind."  Mammon 
saith,  "Be  savage  and  cruel,  and 
count  the  tears  of  the  poor  as  noth- 
ing." What  excuse,  tell  me,  shall 
they  have  who  .  .  .  seize  that  [the 
substance]  of  others  and  overthrow 
orphans'  houses?  What  consolation 
shall  they  enjoy  who  plunder  what 
belongs  not  to  them  at  all,  who  weave 
ten  thousand  lawsuits,  who  unjustly 
grasp  the  property  of  all  men? 

Saint  Chrysostom, 
116 


MARCH  10 


Wednesday — 

T  CALL  cut-purses  alike  the  man 
-■■  who  cuts  through  a  purse  and 
takes  the  gold  and  him  who,  buying 
from  any  of  the  market  people  de- 
ducts something  from  the  proper 
price ;  nor  is  he  the  only  housebreaker 
who  breaks  through  a  wall  and  steals 
anything  within,  but  that  man,  also, 
who  corrupts  justice,  and  takes  any- 
thing from  his  neighbor. 

Saint  Chrysostom. 


117 


MARCH  11 


Thursday — 

O  destructive  a  passion  is  avarice 


s 


that  to  grow  rich  without  in- 
justice is  impossible.  .  .  .  Because 
God  in  the  beginning  made  not  one 
man  rich  and  another  poor,  nor  did 
He  afterwards  show  to  one  treasures 
of  gold  and  deny  to  others  the  right 
of  searching  for  it;  but  he  left  the 
earth  free  to  all  alike.  Why,  then, 
if  it  is  common,  have  you  so  many 
acres  of  land  and  your  neighbor  has 
not  a  portion  of  it? 

Saint  Chrysostom. 


118 


MARCH   12 


Friday — 

rpHOU,  therefore,  though  thou 
^  seest  him  [who  has  invited  to  a 
feast]  that  sitteth  at  meat  defiled 
with  this  filth  [wealth  acquired  by 
"over-reaching"]  dost  thou  feel  as  if 
forsooth,  thou  wert  highly  honored? 
Tell  me,  if  such  a  person  should 
invite  thee  to  a  banquet,  thee  who 
art  accounted  poor  and  mean,  and 
then  should  hear  thee  say,  "Inas- 
much as  the  things  which  are  set 
before  me  are  the  fruits  of  over- 
reaching I  will  not  endure  to  defile 
my  own  soul,"  would  he  not  be  con- 
founded? would  he  not  be  ashamed? 
This  alone  were  sufficient  to  correct 
him,  and  to  make  him  call  himself 
wretched  for  his  wealth,  and  admire 
thee  for  thy  poverty  if  he  saw  him- 
self with  so  great  earnestness  de- 
spised by  thee.  Saint  Chrysostom. 
119 


MARCH  13 


Saturday — 

JPOR  they  [the  Apostolic  Chris- 
tians] did  not  give  in  part  and 
in  part  reserve ;  nor  yet  in  giving  all 
give  it  as  their  own.  And  they  lived 
moreover,  in  great  abundance;  they 
removed  all  inequality  from  among 
them  and  made  a  goodly  order.  And 
with  great  respect  they  did  this;  for 
they  did  not  presume  to  give  into 
their  hands,  nor  did  they  ostenta- 
tiously present,  but  brought  to  the 
Apostles'  feet.  To  them  they  left  it 
to  be  the  dispensers,  made  them  the 
owners,  that  thenceforth  all  should 
be  defrayed  as  from  common,  not 
from  private  property.  .  .  .  Let  us 
now  depict  this  state  of  things  in 
words,  and  derive  at  least  this  pleas- 
ure from  it,  since  you  have  no  mind 
for  it  in  your  actions. 

Saint  Chrysostom, 
120 


LENT  IV 


FREEDOM  AND  BREAD 

JERUSALEM  which  is  above  is 
^  free,  which  is  the  mother  of  us 
all. 

That  He  Who  fed  the  five  thou- 
sand in  a  grassy  place  will  help  us 
to  lead  the  hungry  into  green  pas- 
tures and  to  feed  them  there, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


121 


MARCH  14 


Sunday — 

PNGLAND!      Awake!      awake  1 
^^     awake ! 

Jerusalem  thy  sister  calls! 
Why  wilt  thou  sleep  the  sleep  of 
death, 
And  close  her  from  thine  ancient 
walls  ? 

Bring  me  my  bow  of  burning  gold, 
Bring  me  my  arrows  of  desire! 

Bring  me  my  spear!    O  clouds  un- 
fold! 
Bring  me  my  chariot  of  fire! 

I  will  not  cease  from  mental  fight, 
Nor  shall  my  sword  sleep  in  my 
•   hand 
Till  we  have  built  Jerusalem 

In  England's  green  and  pleasant 
land. 

William  Blake. 
122 


MARCH  15 


Monday — 

TTUNGER  of  the  world, 
''■  -''     When  we  ask  for  grace, 
Be  remembered  here  with  us. 
By  the  vacant  place. 

Thirst,  with  naught  to  drink, 

Sorrow  more  than  mine, 
May  God  some  day  make  you  laugh 

With  water  turned  to  wine. 

Josephine  Preston  Peabody  Marks. 


123 


MARCH  16 


Tuesday — 

/^RANT  body  and  soul  each  day 

^^  their  daily  bread! 

And  should  in  spite  of  grace  fresh 

woe  begin, 
Even  as  our  anger  soon  is  past  and 

dead 
Be  Thy  remembrance  mortal  of  our 

sin: 
By  Thee  in  paths  of  peace  Thy 

sheep  be  led, 
And  in  the  vale  of  terror  comforted. 

Robert  Bridges. 


124 


MARCH  17 


Wednesday — 

rpHE  chief  judge  of  the  Canton 
'■■  Unterwalden  made  a  remark- 
able speech.  As  a  CathoHc  and  a 
lawyer  he  had  long  felt  that  the 
Church  was  relying  far  too  exclu- 
sively on  spiritual  methods  in  deal- 
ing with  social  misery.  She  ought 
to  care  more  directly  for  the  total 
abolition  of  the  bodily  miseries  of 
the  oppressed  proletariat,  after  the 
example  of  Christ,  who  .  .  .  taught 
by  a  miracle  that  the  people  should 
have  bread  enough  and  to  spare.  .  .  . 
"Christendom  alone  can  solve  the 
social  question.  It  will  never  be 
solved  by  the  mere  working  on  the 
heart  and  conscience  of  the  in- 
dividual. The  Spirit  of  Christen- 
dom, the  laws  of  the  Divine  Spirit 
must  be  incorporated  in  the  Laws 

of  the  State."  e,  D.  GirdUstone, 

125 


MARCH  18 


Thursday — 

RESOLVED,  That  it  is  the  mind 
^  ^  of  the  Council  that  the  highest 
form  of  Christian  social  service  is 
the  establishment  of  social  justice, 
that  is  to  say,  of  a  condition  of  life 
wherein  the  fruits  of  industry  shall 
be  so  distributed  that  every  human 
being  shall  have  a  chance  to  live  a 
full  human  life,  with  due  chance  for 
the  preservation  of  bodily  health, 
the  cultivation  of  mental  powers,  and 
the  exercise  of  spiritual  faculties; 
and,  further,  that  no  merely  amehor- 
ative  or  charitable  activities  can  ever 
take  the  place  of  this  fundamental 
duty." 

Social   Service    Commission   of   the 
Diocese  of  Fond  du  Lac. 


126 


MARCH  19 


Friday — 

A/T  Y  brethren,  have  not  the  faith 
'^  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  the 
Lord  of  glory  with  respect  of  per- 
sons. .  .  .  Hath  not  God  chosen  the 
poor  of  this  world  rich  in  faith,  and 
heirs  of  the  kingdom  which  he  hath 
promised  to  them  that  love  Him? 
But  ye  have  despised  the  poor.  .  .  . 
If  a  brother  or  sister  be  naked,  and 
destitute  of  daily  food,  and  one  of  you 
say  uijto  them,  Depart  in  peace,  be 
ye  warmed  and  filled;  notwithstand- 
ing ye  give  them  not  those  things 
that  are  needful  to  the  body;  what 
doth  it  profit? 

Epistle  of  St.  James, 


m 


MARCH  20 


Saturday — 

T^OOD  and  drink,  roof  and  clothes 
^  are  the  inahenable  right  of  every 
child  born  into  the  light.  If  the 
world  does  not  provide  it  freely — 
not  as  a  grudging  gift  but  as  a  right, 
as  a  son  of  the  house  sits  down  to 
breakfast — then  is  the  world  mad. 
But  the  world  is  not  mad,  only  in 
ignorance  ...  an  interested  ignor- 
ance, kept  up  by  strenuous  exertions, 
from  which  infernal  darkness  it  will, 
in  course  of  time,  emerge,  marvelling 
at  the  past  as  a  man  wonders  at  and 
glories  in  the  light  who  has  escaped 
from  blindness. 

Richard  Jeffries:  The  Story  of  my  Heart. 


128 


LENT  V 


.    SOCIAL  SALVATION 

/^HRIST  entered  in  once  into  the 
^^  holy  place,  having  obtained  eter- 
nal redemption  for  us. 

That  the  Blood  of  Christ  may 
purify  our  con^ciefrices  fr'ctot  dead 
woi'ks  to  serve  the  Living  (G-od, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


129 


MARCH  21 


Sunday — 

JESUS   said:   Wouldst  thou  love 
^   one  who  never  died 
For  thee,  or  ever  die  for  one  who  had 

not  died  for  thee? 
And  if  God  dieth  not  for  Man  and 

giveth  not  Himself 
Eternally  for  3Ian,  Man  could  not 

exist;  for  Man  is  Love, 
As  God  is  Love:  every  kindness  to 

another  is  a  little  Death 
In  the  Divine  Image;  nor  can  Man 

exist  but  by  Brotherhood: 

William  Blake. 


130 


MARCH  22 


Monday — 

A  GONIES  are  one  of  my  changes 

of  garments, 
I   do  not  ask  the  wounded  person 
how  he  feels,  I  myself  become  the 
wounded  person. 

Walt  Whitman, 


E)  Y  the  shedding  of  the  Blood  of 
Christ  Our  Lord,  peace  has  been 
estabhshed  in  heaven  and  earth. 

Gallican  Sacramentary. 


131 


MARCH  23 


Tuesday — 

nPHE  Law  of  the  Cross  must  be 
the  inner  strength  of  a  Society 
that  would  realize  brotherhood. 
Vicarious  atonement!  It  has  been 
the  most  scorned  of  all  Christian 
doctrines.  Yet  it  is  superbly  demo- 
cratic, and  the  slow  education  of  the 
race  is  bringing  us  to  the  point  where 
it  must  come  to  its  own,  the  culmi- 
nating expression  of  the  intuitions 
fostered  by  the  New  Order.  Through 
Christian  history  the  doctrine  has 
been  a  germ  of  growth,  training  the 
selfish  peoples  to  a  dim  and  confused 
perception  that  no  man  liveth  or 
dieth  to  himself,  and  that  there  are 
no  depths,  spiritual  or  physical,  at 
which  he  lies  powerless  to  help  his 
brother. 

Vida  D.  Scudder:  Socialism  and  Character, 


132 


MARCH  24 


Wednesday — 

T  N  the  unity  of  the  body,  it  is  pos- 
"■■  sible  for  one  member  to  take 
away  the  infirmity  and  disease  of 
another  by  taking  them  to  himself. 
Taught  in  this  great  school,  our 
hearts  respond  to  the  words  of  a 
Chinese  king  contemporary  with 
Jacob,  who  said  to  his  people: 
"When  guilt  is  found  anywhere  in 
you  who  occupy  the  myriad  regions, 
let  it  rest  on  me,  the  One  Man." 

Bishop    Westcott:    Christus    Consum- 

mator. 


183 


MARCH  25 


Thursday,  The  Annunciation — 

r^ROM  the  remembering  flesh  that 

'*'         in  it  bore 

The   thoughts   of   old   dead   peoples 
and  their  dreams, 

I  made  Thee,  O  Lord. 

From  the  flesh  of  the  fool  that  laugh- 
ing in  his  heart 

Cried  with  an  empty  voice,  "There  is 
no  God," 

I  made  Thee,  O  Lord. 

From  our  desire  and  from  our  mortal 

need. 
From  the  prayer  we  raise  and  our 

delight  in  Thee, 

I  created  Thee,  God. 

Anna  Hempstead  Branch. 


184 


MARCH  26 


Friday — 

T  WOULD  have  looked  from  the 
^  Cross  and  I  durst  not;  for  I  wist 
well  whiles  that  I  beheld  the  Cross  I 
was  sure  and  safe.  .  .  .  Then  had 
I  a  proffer  in  my  reason,  as  it 
had  been  friendly  said  to  me,  ''Look 
up  to  heaven  to  his  Father."  .  .  . 
Here  me  behoved  to  look  up,  or  else 
to  answer;  I  answered  inwardly  with 
all  the  might  of  my  soul,  and  I  said, 
"Nay,  I  may  not,  for  Thou  art  my 
heaven"  .  .  .  Thus  was  I  learned  to 
choose  Jesu  for  my  heaven,  whom  I 
saw  only  in  pain  at  that  time. 

Revelations  of  Divine  Love  recorded 


Julian  Anchoress  at  Norwich. 
Tr.  Serenus  de  Cressy. 


135 


MARCH  27 


Saturday — 

^O  make  the  world  what  Christ 

would  have  it  be; 
To  set  the  people  free,  as  He  is  free ; 

To  make  the  Kingdoms  of  the  world 

His  own, 
Choose  Him  for  King,  and  set  Him 

on  the  throne. 
Whose  rule  is  love.  Who  laid  His 

power  away 
That  He  might  learn  by  suffering  to 

obey. 

Democracy   informed   by   God   our 

aim; 
No  lesser  destiny  the  peoples  claim. 
No    headless    blundering   body   e'er 

sufficed ; 
Our   Head,  by  whom  we  live   and 

move,  is  Christ. 

The  Commonwealth, 

136 


HOLY  WEEK 


THE  CROSS 

T    ET  this  mind  be  in  you  which 
'^  was  also  in  Christ  Jesus. 

By    that    humility    whereby    Thou 
didst  become  obedient  unto  death, 
Good  Lord,  deliver  us. 


137 


MARCH  28 


Palm  Sunday — 

T  ET  the  faithful  join  with  the 
^-^  Angels  and  the  children,  sing- 
ing to  the  Conqueror  of  death,  ho- 
sanna  in  the  highest. 

V.  Blessed  is  he  that  cometh  in  the 
Name  of  the  Lord. 

K.     Hosanna  in  the  highest. 


Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who  for  the  re- 
demption of  the  world  didst  ascend 
the  wood  of  the  Cross,  that  thou 
mightest  enlighten  the  whole  world 
which  lay  in  darkness;  pour  that 
light,  we  pray  Thee,  into  our  souls 
and  bodies,  whereby  we  may  be  en- 
abled to  attain  to  the  light  eternal. 
Who  with  the  Father  and  the  Holy 
Ghost  are  worshipped  and  glorified 
world  without  end.     Amen. 

Sarum  Missal. 
138 


MARCH  29 


Monday — 

ITU^HAT  can  the  Church  do  to  be 

^  ^  saved?  is  a  question  which 
many  Churchmen  are  asking  them- 
selves, and  the  answer  comes  strange- 
ly close  to  the  New  Testament  paral- 
lel. The  Apostolic  order,  the  deposit 
of  faith,  the  rule  of  life  and  all  the 
traditions  of  the  past — all  these  she 
has  carefully  kept  from  her  youth 
up,  but  there  still  seems  to  be  some- 
thing lacking  to  the  fulfillment  of 
her  true  place  in  the  heart  of  the 
world.  It  may  be  that  she  still  needs 
to  sell  what  she  has  and  give  to  the 
poor  and  accept  the  Master's  Cross. 

Bishop  Paul  Jones. 


139 


MARCH  30 


Tuesday — 

THE  MAN  ON  THE  CROSS 

The  Cry 

AS  often  as  there  is  silence  around 
me. 
By  day  or  by  night, 
I  am  startled  by  the  cry, 
*'Take  me  down  from  the  cross!" 
The  first  time  I  heard  it 
I  went  out  and  searched 
Until  I  found  a  man  in  the  throes 

of  crucifixion. 
And  I  said,  "I  will  take  you  down." 
And  I  tried  to  take  the  nails  from 

his  feet, 
But  he  said,  "Let  be;  for  I  cannot 

be  taken  down 
Till  every  man,  every  woman  and 

every  child 
Come  together  to  take  me  down.'* 

140 


MARCH  31 


Wednesday — 

T)  UT  I  cannot  bear  your  cry." 
^  And  I  said,  "What  can  I  do?" 
And  he  said,  *'Go  about  the  world 
Telling  every  one  you  meet, 
'There  is  a  man  upon  the  cross.' " 


141 


APRIL  1 


Maundy  Thursday — 

The  Answer 

T   GO  about  the  world 
-*•    Telling  all  the  rich 
And  all  the  happy  and  all  the  com- 
fortable, 
"There  is  a  man  upon  the  cross." 
But  they  all  say, 
"We  are  sure  you  are  mistaken: 
There  was  a  man  upon  the  cross 
Two  thousand  years  ago. 
But  he  died,  and  was  taken  down, 
And  was  decently  buried; 
And  a  miracle  happened 
So  that  he  rose  again, 
And  ascended  into  heaven, 
And  is  happy  for  evermore." 
Still  I  go  about  the  world,  saying, 
"There  is  a  man  upon  the  cross." 

Elizabeth  Gibson  Cheyne. 
142 


APRIL  a 


Good  Frida7/ — 

T    THAT  am  Lord  of  Life,  Love 

"■■        is  my  drink 

And   for   that   drink   today   I   died 

upon  earth. 
I  will  diunk  of  no  ditch,  of  no  deep 

knowledge, 
But   from   the    Common    Cups,   all 

Christian  Souls. 

Langland:  The  Vision  of  Piers  the 

Plowman. 


148 


APRIL  3 


Saturday,  Easter-Even — 

TF  we  are  to  make  men  think  seri- 
^  ously  of  the  sacrament  of  bap- 
tism, the  Church  itself  must  show 
that  it  is  being  baptized,  that  it  is 
being  plunged  into  the  flood  of  un- 
popularity^, of  poverty,  of  acute  in- 
tellectual agony,  in  its  search  for 
Truth,  in  the  proclamation  of ,  the 
Kingdom  of  God  upon  earth,  in  its 
determination  to  rescue  the  world 
from  its  miseries. 

The  Commonwealth. 


r^  RANT,  O  Lord,  that  as  we  are 
^^  baptized  into  the  death  of  Thy 
blessed  Son,  so  we  may  be  buried 
with  Him;  and  that  through  the 
grave  and  gate  of  death,  we  may  pass 
to  our  joyful  resurrection. 

144 


EASTER  WEEK 

THE  VISION  OF  LIFE 

IN  that  He  liveth,  He  liveth  unto 
God. 
Alleluia! 

That  we  may  reckon  ourselves  to  be 
dead  unto  sin  and  alive  unto  jus- 
tice, 

Good  Lord,  we  thanfe  Thee. 


145 


APRIL  4 


Sunday,  Easter  Day — 

OEE,  here  is  angel's  bread, 
^^       An  earnest  of  that  grace 
My  Bride  shall  have  when  this  lorn 

way  is  trod, 
And  she  beholds  my  face, 
Her  Lover  and  her  God  .  .  , 
There,  even  upon  the  brink 
Of  our  transcendent  nuptials,  thou 

shalt  drink 
Deep   from  the  honeyed  chalice  of 

my  pain. 
Then  shall  I  cry,  Come,  bride  and 

pilgrim,  rest, 
For  earth's  long  Lent  is  done; 
The  Easter  of  my  soul  hath  dawned 

at  last. 
Come  \  at  Love's  mystic  table  break 

thy  fast. 

Evelyn    Underhill :   Immanenee, 


146 


APRIL  5 


Monday — 

r>  ISE,  heart;  thy  Lord  is  risen. 
^^       Sing  his  praise 

Without  delays, 
Who  takes  thee  by  the  hand,  that 
thou  hkewise 

With  Him  mayst  rise. 

George  Herbert. 

A  SAINT  ...  is  one  who  fulfils 
-^^  all  past  values  by  transvaluing 
them;  who  creates  new  values;  who 
is  at  one  with  God  and  himself;  at 
war  with  his  relations  and  neighbors ; 
who  yet  conceives  it  his  highest  privi- 
lege to  serve  them,  and  whose  love 
for  them  is  bounded  only  by  their 
receptivity,  who  gives  to  his  age  a 
deeper  understanding  of  the  mind  of 
God. 

Charles  Gardner:  Vision  and  Vesture. 

147 


APRIL  6 


Tuesday — 

TESUS  says,  "Come  into  relation- 
^  ship  with  Me,  I  am  the  Life ;  and 
then  go  out  to  live  in  relationship 
with  your  fellows  as  you  ought  to 
live.  ...  I  am  come  not  to  destroy 
human  friendships,  I  am  come  not  as 
the  critic  of  human  society, — I  am 
come  to  complete  the  man  who  comes 
to  Me  for  life,  if  he  will  come  into 
relationship  to  life  as  I  illustrate  it, 
as  I  teach  it,  as  I  live  it,  he  will 
come  into  right  relationship  with  his 
fellows  wheresoever  he  meets  them." 

Dean  Rousmaniere. 


148 


APRIL  7 


Wednesday — 

T3EJ0ICE,     ye     dead,     where'er 

-■■^      your  spirits  dwell, 

Rejoice  that  yet  on  earth  your  fame 
is  bright; 

And  that  your  names,  remember'd 
day  and  night, 

Live  on  the  lips  of  those  that  love 
you  well. 

'Tis  ye  that  conquer 'd  have  the  pow- 
ers of  hell, 

Each  with  the  special  grace  of  your 
delight : 

Ye  are  the  world's  creators,  and 
thro'  might 

Of  everlasting  love  ye  did  excel. 

Robert  Bridges, 


149 


APRIL  8 


Thursday — 

Tj^ROM  furrowed  fields  the  early 
'*"  grain  is  shining,  and  torn  hearts, 
cruelly  opened  to  the  love  of  God, 
are  healed  while  they  yet  suffer. 
From  the  cleft  rock  the  Son  of  Life 
appears,  .  .  .  Crushed  wheat  and 
bleeding  grape,  from  measureless 
fields  and  unnumbered  vineyards, 
bring  the  illimitable  life  of  God  with- 
in the  compass  of  our  perception,  and 
the  hungry  soul  is  fed  with  boundless 
hope  and  immediate  certitude. 

The  rough  crosses  over  unnamed 
graves  on  battlefields,  however  dis- 
tant and  forlorn,  are  each  become  a 
tree  of  life  springing  from  buried 
sacrifice.  Though  every  such  grave 
is  a  reproach  to  our  wanton  ambi- 
tions, God  grant  that  each  may  also 
be  the  Amen  to  our  finished  Creed: 
"I  believe  in  the  life  everlasting." 

F.    C.   Lauderburn. 
150 


APRIL  9 


Friday — 

QOUL  of  the  acorn  buried  in  the 

^        sod, 

Lord  of  high  trees  and  sunset- 
haunted  hills, 

Planter  of  primroses  and  Very  God 
Of  the  bright  daffodils. 

Pity  the  weakness  of  the  growing 
grain — 

And  drench  our  fields  with  rain. 

Soul  of  the  Light  and  Spirit  of  the 

Sword, 
Flash    one    great    thought    through 

hosts  of  huddled  years. 
God  of  great  deeds  and  dream-in- 
spired Lord 

Of  pity  and  of  tears, 
Pity  the  weary  ploughman's  barren 

toil- 
Cast  sunshine  on  the  soil. 

151 


APRIL  10 


Saturday — 

T^REAM  of  dim  lights  and  twi- 

^^     light  haunted  wind, 

Spirit  that  moves  upon  the  water's 

face, 
Lighten  the  wave-washed  caverns  of 

the  mind 

With  a  pale,  starry  grace: 
Pity  the  midnight  hours  of  Death 

and  Birth, 
Bring  Hope  back  to  the  earth. 

Eva  Gore-Booth. 


'nn  IS  death,  my  soul,  to  be  indif- 
-'•         ferent, 

Set  forth  thyself  unto  thy  whole  ex- 
tent, 

And  all  the  glory  of  His  passion 
prize 

Who  for  thee  lives,  who  for  thee  dies. 

Thomas  Traherne. 
152 


EASTER  I 


A  NEW  WORLD  ORDER 

nn  HIS    is   the    victory   that  over- 
-''         Cometh   the   world,   even   our 
faith. 

For  grace  to  set  our  affections  on 

heavenly  things, 
We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 

Lord. 


153 


APRIL  11 


Sunday — 

11  rHY    I    move    this    matter    is 
^  ^         mostly  for  the  poor, 
For  in  their  Hkeness  our  Lord  hath 

oft  been  known: 
Witness  in  the  Paschal  week,  when 

He  went  to  Emmaus; 
Cleophas  knew^  Him  not,  that  He 

Christ  were, 
For  his  poor  apparel  and  pilgrim's 

weed. 
Till  he  blessed  and  brake  the  bread 

that  they  ate.  .  .  . 

....  for  pilgrims  are  we  all, 
And  in  the  apparel  of  a  poor  man 

and  pilgrim's  likeness 
IMany    times    God    hath    been    met 

among  needy  people. 
Who  never  saw  Him  in  sect  of  the 

rich. 

Langland :  The  Vision  of  Piers  the 

Plowman. 

154 


APRIL  12 


Monday — 

T  ET  us  then,  my  brethren,  abstain 
^^  from  private  property,  or  at 
least  from  the  love  of  it,  if  we  can- 
not abstain  from  its  possession:  God 
did  not  create  thee  alone,  but  also  the 
poor  man  as  well.  You  will  find 
yourselves  companions,  and  are  walk- 
ing on  the  same  road.  He  carries 
nothing,  and  thou  art  heavily  laden. 
He  brings  nothing  with  him,  and 
thou  more  than  is  needful.  Give  him 
of  what  thou  hast,  and  thou  wilt  both 
feed  him.  and  lighten  thine  own  load. 

St.  Augustine, 


155 


APRIL  1^ 


Tuesday — 

/ELEMENT  can  find  no  Chris- 
^^  tain  warrant  for  the  man  who 

"goes  on  trying  to  increase  with- 
out limit."  On  the  other  hand,  he 
goes  beyond  the  primitive  Christian 
mode  of  thought  in  a  modern  direc- 
tion when  he  observes  that  "It  is  im- 
possible that  one  in  want  of  the  nec- 
essaries of  life  should  not  be  harassed 
in  mind  and  lack  leisure  for  the  bet- 
ter things,  in  trying  to  provide  the 
wherewithal."  In  TertuUian  the 
primitive  attitude  toward  property  is 
no  less  manifest  than  in  his  great 
Alexandrine  contemporary.  "We 
who  mingle  in  mind  and  soul,"  says 
he,  "have  no  hesitation  as  to  fellow- 
ship in  property." 

Vernon  Bartlet:  Essay  in  The  Biblical 

and  Early   Christian   Ideal  of 

Property, 


156 


APRIL  14 


Wednesday — 

AT  AN  should  not  consider  his  out- 
"^  ward  possessions  as  his  own, 
but  as  common  to  all,  so  as  to  share 
them  without  difficulty  when  others 
are  in  need. 

St.  Thomas  Aquinas. 

/^NLY  by  taxing  and  limiting  our 
^-^  private  possessions  and  by  pro- 
viding a  common  wealth  with  which 
to  establish  healthy  conditions  and 
wider  education,  and  opportunity 
free  to  the  poorest,  can  the  world  be 
opened  to  the  less  fortunate  of  our 
fellows. 
Harold  B.  Shepheard :  Jesus  and  Politics. 


157 


APRIL  15 


Thursday — 

TT  will  be  objected  to  holding 
^  goods  in  common  that  govern- 
ments will  perish  because  no  one 
cares  to  preserve  common  property. 
But  no,  if  that  law  were  in  force, 
states  would  be  most  excellently  pre- 
served. .  .  .  For  goods  are  to  be 
cared  for  in  proportion  to  their  ex- 
cellence. Now  goods  held  in  com- 
mon are  the  best  of  all;  therefore 
they  must  be  cared  for  most  per- 
fectly. 

John  Wyclif:  De  Dominio  Civile. 


158 


APRIL  16 


Friday — 

T^OR  myself  I  am  certain  that  the 
^  good  of  human  hfe  cannot  He  in 
the  possession  of  things  which  for 
one  man  to  possess  is  for  the  rest  to 
lose,  but  rather  in  things  which  all 
can  possess  alike,  and  where  one 
man's  wealth  promotes  his  neigh- 
bor's. 

Spinoza. 


159 


APRIL  17 


Saturday — 

PROPERTY  for  use,"  what  a 
'■■  man  needs  for  true  freedom,  is 
a  very  limited  quantity.  Speedily  as 
it  expands  it  becomes  "property  for 
power."  That  is  where  property  has 
so  manifestly  gone  wrong.  In  our 
own  civilization  we  find  vast  masses 
who  cannot  be  reasonably  described 
as  having  any  adequate  measure  of 
property  for  use.  .  .  .  The  Convic- 
tion rises  in  our  minds  that  we  need 
by  peaceful  means  and,  if  it  may  be, 
by  general  consent  to  accomplish  such 
a  redistribution  of  property  as  shall 
reduce  the  inordinate  amount  of 
"property  for  power"  in  the  hands  of 
the  few  and  give  to  all  men  in  reason- 
able measure  "property  for  use." 

Bishop  Gore:   The  Biblical  and  Early 

Christian  Ideal  of  Property, 

Introduction. 

160 


EASTER  II 

COMPASSIONATE  CARE 

T    EAVING  us  an  example  that 
^^       we  should  follow  His  steps. 

That  we  may  learn  shepherding  of  the 

Good  Shepherd. 
W6  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 

Lord. 


161 


APRIL  18 


Sunday — 

Ty  ICH  is  that  man  who  pities 
^  ^  many,  and  in  imitation  of  God 
bestows  from  what  he  hath:  for  God 
giveth  all  things  to  all  from  His  own 
creatures.  Understand  then,  ye  rich, 
that  ye  are  in  duty  bound  to  do  serv- 
ice, having  received  more  than  ye 
yourselves  need.  Learn  that  to 
others  is  lacking  that  wherein  ye 
superabound.  Be  ashamed  of  hold- 
ing fast  that  which  belongs  to  others. 
Imitate  God's  equity  and  none  shall 
be  poor. 

The  Preaching  of  Peter,  Second  Century. 


162 


APRIL  19 


Monday — 

'l\7ITHI]Sr  a  poor  man's  squalid 
^  ^         home  I  stood; 
The   one   bare   chamber,   where   his 

work-worn  wife 
Above  the  stove  and  wash-tub  passed 

her  life, 

I  saw  a  great  house  with  the  portals 
wide 

Upon  a  banquet  room,  and,  from 
without, 

The  guests  descending  in  a  brilliant 
line 

By  the  stair's  statued  niches,  and  be- 
side 

The  loveliest  of  the  gemmed  and 
silken  rout 

The  poor  man's  landlord  leading 
down  to  dine. 

William  Dean  Howells. 
163 


APRIL  20 


Tuesday — 

rilHERE  are  many  who  possess 
^  farms  and  fields,  but  all  their 
anxiety  is  to  make  a  bathhouse  to 
their  mansions,  to  build  entrance 
courts  and  servants'  offices:  but  how 
the  souls  of  their  dependents  are  cul- 
tivated they  care  not.  If  you  see 
thorns  in  a  field,  you  cut  them  down 
and  burn  them ;  but  when  you  see  the 
souls  of  your  laborers  beset  with 
thorns  and  cut  them  not  down,  tell 
me,  do  you  not  fear  when  you  reflect 
on  the  account  which  will  be  exacted 
from  you  for  these  things? 

St.  Chrysostom. 


164i 


APRIL  21 


Wednesday — 

T^ERVIDUS  is  a  regular  man,  and 
^  exact  in  the  duties  of  religion, 
but  then  the  greatness  of  his  zeal  to 
be  doing  things  that  he  cannot,  makes 
him  overlook  those  little  ways  of  do- 
ing good  which  are  every  day  in  his 
power.  .  .  .  Do  not  believe  yourself, 
Fervidus;  if  you  think  the  care  of 
other  people's  salvation  to  be  the 
happiest  business  in  the  world,  why 
do  you  show  no  concern  for  the  souls 
of  your  servants? 

William  Law:  Christian  Perfection. 


165 


APRIL  22 


Thursday — 

A  N  old  writer  says  a  certain  man 
^^*^  had  three  friends,  whom  he  asked 
to  lead  him  into  the  presence  of  the 
king.  The  first  took  him  half  way, 
and  could  go  no  further;  the  second 
took  him  to  the  gate  of  the  palace, 
unable  to  do  any  more ;  the  third  took 
him  into  the  presence  of  the  king,  and 
pleaded  his  cause  for  him.  The  first 
is  abstinence,  which  helps  a  man  to 
start  towards  God;  the  second  is 
chastity,  which  brings  us  where  we 
may  see  God;  the  third  is  mercy  and 
almsgiving,  because  it  brings  us  into 
God's  very  presence,  who  is  ever 
calling  from  His  throne  of  mercy, 
"Gather  My  saints  together  unto 
Me,  those  that  have  made  a  covenant 
with  Me  with  sacrifice." 

W.  C.  E.  Newboli. 


166 


APRIL  23 


Friday — 

nPHERE  lies  the  great  social  op- 
portunity  of  the  Church — to 
preach  the  gospel  of  the  Incarnation 
and  try  honestly  to  work  out  all  its 
implications.  Her  treasured  posses- 
sions are  worth  nothing  as  long  as 
they  stand  in  the  way  of  her  supreme 
duty  to  "the  souls  for  whom  our 
Lord  his  life  laid  down."  She  must 
give  to  the  poor,  not  of  her  wealth, 
but  all  the  living  that  she  has.  We 
talk  of  the  Church  as  the  extension 
of  the  Incarnation;  but  just  as  the 
latter  was  not  complete  until  Cal- 
vary, so  the  Church  will  not  have 
completed  her  identification  until  she 
has  given  herself  completely  for  the 
life  of  the  world. 

Bishop  Paul  Jones, 


167 


APRIL  24 


Saturday — 

p  HRISTIANITY  does  not  call 
^^  on  the  strong  to  climb  to  isola- 
tion across  the  backs  of  the  weak, 
but  challenges  them  to  prove  their 
strength  by  lifting  the  rest  with 
them. 

Walter  Rauschenbusch. 

rPHESE  people  make  me  feel  as  if 
I  were  a  part  of  something  heavy 
sitting  on  something  else,  and  all  the 
time  talking  about  how  to  make 
things  lighter  for  the  thing  it's  sit- 
ting on. 

John  Galsworthy. 

1  PRAYED  to  God  that  He 
-■■  would  baptize  my  heart  into  a 
sense  of  the  needs  and  condition  of 
all  men. 

George  Fox, 
168 


EASTER  III 

SOCIAL  TIES 

O  UBMIT  yourselves  to  every  ordi- 
^       nance  of  man  for  the  Lord's 
sake. 

That  we  as  free  men  use  not  our 
freedom  as  a  cloak  for  malicious- 
ness, 
We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


169 


APRIL  25 


Sunday — 

T  ET  us  spend  a  few  minutes  in 
'^  thinking  out  a  society,  a  city,  in 
which  men  with  our  experience  and 
our  knowledge  might  live  Christ's 
life.  If  we  see  beyond  the  bounds 
of  the  waste  the  city  of  God,  we  shall 
surely  work  to  establish  London  in 
its  likeness.  We  shall  serve  our  city. 
Our  civic  duties  will  be  pur  religious 
duties;  our  liturgies  will  be  not  only 
those  sung  by  choirs,  but,  as  in  the 
Greek  cit}^  liturgies  will  again  mean 
the  performance  by  the  citizens  of 
public  duties.  A  pure  liturgy,  as 
St.  James  says,  is  others'  service. 

Canon  Barnett. 


170 


APRIL  26 


Monday — 

rpHE  notion  of  Discipline  and 
^  Interference  lies  at  the  very 
root  of  all  human  progress  or  power. 
The  Let  Alone  principle  is,  in  all 
things  which  man  has  to  do  with,  the 
principle  of  death.  It  is  ruin  to  him, 
certain  and  total,  if  he  lets  his  land 
alone, — if  he  lets  his  fellowmen  alone, 
— if  he  lets,  his  own  soul  alone. 

John  RusJcin:  A  Joy  Forever. 


rpHE  power  and  glory  of  all  crea- 
^  tures  and  all  matter  consist  in 
their  obedience,  not  in  their  freedom. 
The  Sun  has  no  liberty, — a  dead  leaf 
has  much.  The  dust  of  which  you  are 
formed  has  no  liberty.  Its  liberty 
will  come, — with  its  corruption. 

John  Euskin:  The  Two  Paths. 

171 


APRIL  27 


Tuesday — 

n^HE  liberty  especially  which  has 
to  purchase  itself  by  social  iso- 
lation, and  each  man  standing  sep- 
arate from  the  other,  having  "no 
business  with  him"  but  a  cash  ac- 
count: this  is  such  a  Hberty  ...  as 
the  Earth  will  not  long  put  up  with, 
recommend  it  how  you  may.  This 
liberty  turns  out  .  .  .  to  be,  for  the 
Working  Millions,  a  liberty  to  die 
by  want  of  food;  for  the  Idle  Thou- 
sands and  Units,  alas,  a  still  more 
fatal  liberty  to  live  in  want  of  work. 
.  .  .  Brethren,  we  know  but  imper- 
fectly yet,  after  ages  of  Constitu- 
tional Government,  what  Liberty 
and  Slavery  are. 

Thomas  Carlyle:  Past  and  Present. 


172 


APRIL  28 


Wednesday — 

1\/'E  begin  to  see  liberty  as  the 
^  ^  very  substance  of  life.  .  .  . 
But  for  all  men,  since  man  is  a  social 
creature,  the  play  of  will  must  fall 
short  of  absolute  freedom.  Perfect 
human  liberty  is  possible  only  to  a 
despot.  .  .  .  All  other  liberty  is  a 
compromise  between  our  own  free- 
dom of  will  and  the  wills  of  those 
with  whom  we  come  in  contact. 

It  follows,  therefore,  in  a  modern 
Utopia  which  finds  the  final  hope  of 
the  world  in  the  evolving  interplay 
of  unique  individualities,  that  the 
state  will  have  effectually  chipped 
away  just  all  those  spendthrift  lib- 
erties that  waste  liberty,  and  not  one 
liberty  more,  and  so  have  attained 
the  maximum  general  freedom. 

H.  G,  Wells:  A  Modern  Utopia. 


178 


APRIL  29 


Thursday — 
F  we  go  back  beyond  the  period 


I 


of  storm  and  stress,  and  study 
the  political  and  social  life  of  Cathol- 
icism in  its  more  normal  attitude  in 
the  Middle  Ages,  we  shall  find  a  sin- 
gular regard  for  personal  liberty. 
.  .  .  In  the  rule  given  by  St.  Bene- 
dict to  his  monks,  it  is  laid  down 
that  on  all  matters  seriously  affect- 
ing the  welfare  of  the  community, 
the  abbot  shall  not  act  without  con- 
sulting the  whole  body  of  monks  even 
to  the  youngest  novice.  ...  In  the 
history  of  the  Benedictine  Order  one 
finds  a  spirit  of  personal  liberty  ever 
blending  with  a  most  perfect  system 
of  authority. 

Father  Cuthhert,  0.  S.  F.  C. 


174. 


APRIL  30 


Friday — 

^T^  HE.  advance  of  civilization  is 
^  measured  by  its  self-imposed 
restrictions.  Already  today,  such 
restrictions  for  the  sake  of  the  social 
welfare  are  thickening  on  every 
hand.  In  countless  matters  the  en- 
lightened conscience  is  limiting  its 
prerogatives,  in  that  spii'it  of  joy 
which  transforms  sacrifice  from  mu- 
tilation to  redemption. 

Vida  Z).  Scudder:  Socialism  and 
Character. 


175 


MAY  1 


Saturday — 

13  E  thankful  even  when  tired  and 

^       faint 

For  the  rich  bounties  of  constraint. 

William  Wordsworth. 

LIBERTY  requires  new  definitions. 

Thomas  Carlyle. 


176 


EASTER  IV 

SIMPLICITY  OF  LIFE 

T7^  VERY  good  gift  and  every  per- 
^^       feet  gift  is  from  above. 

That  we  lay  aside  all  superfluity  of 

naughtiness, 
We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 

Lord; 


177 


MAY  2 


Sunday — 

IT  EAR,  sweetest  Poverty. 

All  our  love  is  due  to  thee. 

Little  Poverty,  tender  thing, 
Humility's  own  sisterling. 
For  eating  and  drinking  and  every- 
thing 

One  bowl  contenteth  thee. 

Poverty  has  no  bed, 
Xor  ever  a  roof  over  her  head. 
Nor    with    linen    fine    is    her    table 
spread, 

Content  on  the  ground  sits  she. 

Light  her  footstep  by  the  way, 
Never  frowning,  ever  gay, 
To  stranger  land  she  fares  away, 
Lacking  all,  and  free. 

Jacopone  da  Todi:  Tr,  Anne  Macdonell, 
Sons  of  Francis. 

178 


MAY  3 


Monday — 

pOVERTY,  thou  wisdom  deep, 
-*■  Holding  all  possessions  cheap, 

Thy  will  that  thou  fast  bound  dost 
keep 

Springs  up  in  liberty. 

Poverty,  great  wisdom's  height, 
Each   day  more   clearly   shows   thy 

might. 
For  here  below  thou  walkst  in  sight 
Of  the  high  life  to  be. 

Gracious  is  the  maid  and  fair, 
Open-handed,  debonair, 
Her  livery  is  no  base  wear. 
Let's  follow  Poverty. 

Jacopone  da  Todi:  Tr.  Anne  Macdonell, 
Sons  of  Francis, 


J79 


MAY  4 


Tuesday — 

lyl  rHY  may  not  poor  people  give 
^  ^  themselves  up  to  discontent,  to 
impatience  and  repining?  Is  it  not 
because  Christianity  requires  the 
same  virtues  in  ail  states  of  life? 
But  who  sees  not  that  these  reasons 
equally  condemn  the  gratifications  of 
the  rich,  as  the  repinings  of  the  poor  ? 
If  our  hopes  in  Christ  are  sufficient 
to  make  us  rejoice  in  tribulation  and 
be  thanliful  to  God  in  the  hardships 
of  poverty,  surely  the  same  hopes  in 
Christ  must  be  equally  sufficient  to 
make  us  forbear  the  luxury  and  soft- 
ness of  greatness. 

William  Law:  Christian  Perfection. 


180 


MAY  5 


Wednesday — 

T^HE  proper  use  of  the  phenom- 
^  enal  world  is  a  serious  and  deli- 
cate problem  for  the  Christian.  All 
true  manifestations  of  the  natural 
order  are  to  be  the  means  of  his 
sacramental  entry  into  the  other 
world;  and  yet  he  knows  by  experi- 
ence that  an  overweight  of  the  earth- 
ly phenomena  will  inevitably  prove 
to  be  more  than  he  can  use  sacra- 
mentalty.  .  .  .  He  must  then,  whilst 
using  the  phenomenal  world,  sit 
loosely  to  it.  He  must  be  sparing 
and  watchful  in  his  use  of  it,  holding 
to  a  certain  simplicity,  which  will 
raise  the  sacramental  value  of  the 
smallest  thing  in  it  to  its  fullest  pow- 
er. His  use  of  the  phenomenal  world 
must  be  after  the  manner  of  St. 
Francis. 

L.   S.   Thornton:  Conduct  and  the 
Supernatural. 
181 


MAY  6 


Thursday — 

r\^  Good  Friday  I  find  a  felon 

^-^       was  saved, 

That  all  his  life  had  lived  with  lying 

and  with  theft ; 
Yet,  for  he  repented  him  and  shrove 

him  to  Christ 
He  was  sooner  saved  than  John  the 

Baptist.  .  .  . 
None  are  sooner  saved,  none  surer  in 

creed. 
Than  plowmen,  shepherds,  and  poor 

common  people; 
Cobblers    and    laborers,    land-tilling 

folk 
Pierce  with  a  prayer  the  palace  of 

heaven. 

Langland :  The  Vision  of  Piers  the 

Plowman, 


182 


MAY  7 


Fiiday — 

TN  spite  of  the  moral  impartiality 
^  of  the  New  Testament,  its  regular 
assumption  is  that  God  is  on  the  side 
of  the  poor  against  the  rich.  .  .  . 
Our  Lord  seems  to  stand  over  against 
each  human  soul  which  comes  to  him 
to  seek  the  position  of  the  disciple, 
eliciting,  claiming,  welcoming  and 
blessing  the  renunciation  of  wealth. 
.  .  .  "How  hardly  shall  they  that 
have  riches  enter  into  the  kingdom  of 
Heaven."  .  .  .  From  the  warning, 
we  must  remember,  the  correctest 
texts  have  removed  the  modification, 
"How  hardly  shall  they  that  trust  in 
riches."  It  is  the  possession  of 
riches  which  remains  the  almost  in- 
superable obstacle. 

Bishop  Gore:  Sermon  to  Church 
Congress.  1906. 

183 


MAY  8 


Saturday — 

rpHEY  led  my  Lady  Poverty  to 
a  place  where  she  might  sleep, 
for  she  was  weary.  And  she  lay 
down  upon  the  bare  gi'ound.  And 
when  she  asked  for  a  Pillow,  they 
straightway  brought  her  a  Stone, 
and  laid  it  under  her  head.  So  after 
she  had  slept  a  brief  space  in  peace, 
she  arose  and  asked  the  Brothers  to 
show  her  their  Cloister.  And  they, 
leading  her  to  the  summit  of  a  hill, 
showed  her  the  wide  World,  saying: 
This  is  our  Cloister. 

The    Lady  Poverty    {Sacrum    Commer- 
cium) :  Tr.  Montgomery  Carmichael. 


184 


EASTER  V 

A  WEEK  OF  INTERCESSION 

A  SK    and   ye    shall   receive,    that 
^^^^       your  joy  may  be  full. 

That  we  may  receive  power  after 
that  the  Holy  Ghost  is  come  upon 
us, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


185 


MAY  9 


Sunday — 

T    ET  us  draw  the  weapons  of  holy 
■*^  prayer,  for  other  help  I  see  not. 
Letters  of  St.  Catherine  of  Siena. 


186 


MAY  10 


Monday — 

/^  GOD  our  Father,  stir  up,  we 
^^  beseech  Thee,  the  hearts  of 
Thy  people  in  wisdom,  that  the  poor 
may  bring  forgiveness  and  the  rich 
may  bring  power  to  the  building  of 
Thy  Kingdom,  for  Jesus  Christ's 
sake,  the  Founder  of  Thy  Kingdom. 
Amen. 

Inspire  us,  we  pray  Thee,  to  faith- 
ful service  in  Thy  family  on  earth, 
make  us  to  know  the  infinite  debt  we 
owe  our  fellow-men,  and  let  no  pride 
of  circumstance  or  narrowness  of 
mind  keep  us  from  full  and  free 
communion  with  our  brethren. 

H,  S.  Nash, 


187 


MAY  11 


Tuesday — 

r\  MERCIFUL  Lord,  who  hast 
^-^  made  of  one  Blood  and  re- 
deemed by  one  ransom,  all  nations 
of  men,  grant  that  I  may  not  only 
seek  my  own  things,  but  also  the 
things  of  others;  that  this  mind  may 
be  in  all  of  us  which  was  in  the  Lord 
Jesus,  that  we  may  love  as  brethren, 
be  pitiful  and  courteous,  and  en- 
deavor heartily  and  vigorously  to 
keep  the  unity  of  the  spirit  in  the 
Bond  of  Peace;  and  the  God  of 
Grace,  Mercy  and  Peace  be  with  us 
all.    Amen. 

Thomas  a  Kempis. 


188 


MAY  12 


Wednesday — 

/^RANT,  O  Lord  Christ,  the 
^^  speedy  coming  of  that  day  when 
Thy  word  of  command  will  disarm 
the  soldiers  of  all  nations,  as  Thou 
in  the  Garden  of  Gethsemane  didst 
disarm  Peter. 

May  Thy  Love,  O  King  and 
Lover  of  Souls,  be  powerful  today, 
as  in  that  dark  hour  of  Thy  be- 
trayal, to  heal  the  wounds  which  our 
swords  have  made.    Amen. 

That  all  nations  may  learn  that 
political  peace  cannot  be  founded  on 
industrial  war. 
We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 

Lord. 


189 


MAY  13 


Thursday,  Ascension  Day — 

/^HRIST   the   Victor,   Christ  the 

^^  Saviour,  Christ  our  Master 
dear  and  Lord, 

Hearken  then  to  the  petitions  which 
we  pour  with  one  accord : 

When  the  smell  of  a  sweet  savor  up 
to  Thee  the  censers  send, 

Let  the  prayers  of  Thy  redeemed 
ones  with  the  hymn  angelic  blend: 

Let  the  fragrant  clouds  that  mount- 
ing breathe  their  incense  far  on 
high 

Be  for  us  the  hopeful  symbol  of  As- 
cension to  the  sky ! 

R.  F,  Littledale. 


190 


MAY  14 


Fnday — 

r\  HOLY  Trinity,  wherein  Three 
^^       are  OnCj 

Have  mercy  upon  us. 
From  the  sins  that  divide  us;  from 
all  class  bitterness  and  hatred  be- 
tween races  or  nations;  from  for- 
getfulness  of   Thee   and  indiffer- 
ence to  our  fellow-men, 
Good  Lord,  deliver  us. 
From  the  fear  of  unemployment  and 
the  evils  of  overwork;  from  the 
curse  of  child  labor  and  the  ill-paid 
toil  of  women, 

Good  Lord,  deliver  us. 
Ey  the  tears   Thou  didst  shed  for 
Thy  city. 

We  beseech   Thee  to  hear  us. 
Good  Lord. 


191 


MAY  15 


Saturday — 

rpHEY  that  be  snared  and  entan- 
^  gled  in  the  extreme  penury  of 
things  needful  for  the  body  can  not 
set  their  minds  upon  Thee,  O  Lord, 
as  they  ought  to  do.  Have  pity  upon 
them,  therefore,  O  merciful  Father, 
and  relieve  their  misery  that  by  Thy 
removing  of  their  urgent  necessity 
they  may  rise  up  to  Thee  in  mind. 
Thou,  O  Lord,  providest  enough  for 
all  men  with  Thy  most  liberal  and 
bountiful  Hand;  but  whereas  Thy 
gifts  are  in  respect  of  Thy  goodness 
and  free  favor,  made  common' to  all 
men,  we  through  our  naughtiness . 
niggardhness  and  distrust,  do  make 
them  private  and  peculiar.  Correct 
Thou  the  thing  which  our  iniquity 
hath  put  out  of  order ;  let  Thy  good- 
ness supply  that  which  our  niggard- 
liness hath  plucked  away. 

Ancient  Prayer:  Translated  1578, 
192 


ASCENSIONTIDE 

THE  HOPE  OF  THE  KING- 
DOM 


"DEING  seen  of  them  forty  days, 
■^     and    speaking    of    the    things 

pertaining    to    the    Kingdom    of 

God. 


The  end  of  all  things  is  at  hand.    Be 
we  therefore  sober  and  watch  unto 
prayer, 
We  beseech   Thee  to  hear  us. 
Good  Lord. 


193 


MAY  16 


Sunday — 

np HERE  is  a  spirit,  which  I  feel, 
that  dehghts  to  do  no  evil  nor 
to  revenge  any  wrong,  but  dehghts 
to  endure  all  things,  in  hope  to  en- 
joy its  own  in  the  end.  I  found  it 
alone,  being  forsaken.  I  have  fel- 
lowship therein  with  them  who  lived 
in  dens  and  desolate  places  in  the 
earth,  who  through  death  obtained 
their  resurrection  and  eternal  holy 
life. 

James  Naylor:  A   Quaker  Saint. 
Svirit  of   Man. 


194 


MAY  17 


Monday — 

ll^AITING  itself  becomes  a 
work!  and  of  all  the  promises 
of  Scripture  none  speaks  with  fuller 
encouragement  to  such  as  seem  to 
find  no  fruit  of  labour  or  no  scope 
for  it,  if  only  they  wait  for  the  Lord 
Who  will  not  leave  the  desolate,  than 
this:  In  your  patience  ye  shall  win 
your  souls. 

Bichop  Westcott. 


195 


MAY  18 


Tuesday — 

l>yE  hear  too  little  of  the  Chris- 
^  ^  tian  virtue  of  Hope,  the  ex- 
pectation of  the  triumph  of  the  right 
and  true.  .  .  .  We  need  to  be  en- 
couraged by  news  of  the  progress  of 
the  Kingdom  of  God  in  .  .  .  the 
rising  spirit  of  brotherhood,  the 
strength  of  social  sympathy  amongst 
men  of  earnest  spirit. 

Malcolm  Spencer:   The  Hope  of  the 
Redemption   of  Society. 

pvOES  Christ  find  the  faith  that 
^^  shows  itself  in  systematic  prayer 
for  the  Coming  of  His  Kingdom, 
now  in  our  time,  on  our  earth?  If 
He  does  not,  who  can  express  the 
peril  and  the  loss?  Who  can  deny 
that  we  are  ignoring  one  of  the  con- 
stant elements  in  normal  human  life? 

Bishop  Gore:  Prayer  and  the  Lord's 

Prayer, 
196 


MAY  19 


Wednesday — ' 

npHAT    it    may    please    Thee    to 
''"       unite  the  inhabitants  of  every 
city,  state,  and  nation  in  the  bonds 
of  peace  and  concord, 

We   beseech   Thee  to  hear  us. 
Good  Lord. 
That  there  may  be  no  decay,  no  lead- 
ing  into   captivity   and  no   com- 
plaining in  our  streets. 

We   beseech   Thee   to  hear  us, 
Good  Lord. 
That  Thy  Kingdom  may  come  on 
earth. 

We  beseech   Thee  to  hear  us, 
Good  Lord. 


197 


MAY  20 


Thursday — 

SPLENDOR  of  the  thoughts  of 
God 
For  the  hfe  of  men, 
Visions  of  the  saints  and  seers, 

Burn  for  us  again! 
From  the  night  of  ancient  wrongs 

Wake  our  eyes  to  see 
Dawning  in  the  skies  the  day 
God  shall  bring  to  be. 

W,  Russell  Bowie, 


198 


MAY  21 


Fiiday — 

1  ]1  rK  need  a  restoration  of  the  mil- 
^  ^  lenial  hope,  which  the  Catho- 
hc  Church  dropped  out  of  eschatol- 
ogy.  .  .  .  Our  chief  interest  in  any 
millenium  is  the  desire  for  a  social 
order  in  which  the  worth  and  free- 
dom of  every  least  human  being  will 
be  honored  and  protected;  in  which 
the  brotherhood  of  man  will  be  ex- 
pressed in  the  common  possession  of 
the  economic  resources  of  society; 
and  in  which  the  spiritual  good  of 
humanity  will  be  set  high  above  the 
private  profit  interests  of  all  mate- 
rialistic groups.  We  hope  for  such 
an  order  for  humanity  as  we  hope 
for  heaven  for  ourselves. 

Walter  Rauschenhusch:  A  Theology  for 
the  Social  Gospel. 


199 


MAY  22 


Saturday — 

TDUT  wait — till   out  of  pain  and 
^        strife 

Our  new  and  nobler  peace  is  born; 
Wait  till  the  nation's  coming  life 
Moves  radiant  through  the  gates  of 
morn. 

Eliza  Scudder. 


200 


WHITSUNTIDE 

THE   GLORY  OF  THE 
CHURCH 

npHEY  were  all  with  one  accord 
^         in  one  place. 

That  cloven  tongues  as  of  fire  may 
again  rest  upon  the  leaders  of  the 
Church  of  God, 

We   beseech    Thee  to   hear   us, 
Good  Lord. 


201 


MAY  23 


Sunday — 

T  N  highly  developed  and  spiritually 
^  responsive  groups,  there  is  an  ac- 
tual heightening  of  inward  power 
and  a  gathered  sense  of  truth 
through  union. 

Not  on  one  favored  forehead  fell 
Of  old  the  fire-tongued  miracle, 
But   flamed  o'er   all   the   thronging 

host 
The  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost; 
Heart  answer  heart;  in  one  desire 
The  blending  lines  of  prayer  aspire; 
Where  in  My  Name  meet  two  or 

three, 
Our  Lord  hath  said,  There  I  will  be. 

John   Whittier,  quoted  by  Rufus  M. 

Jones:  Social  Law  in  the 

Spiritual    World. 


202 


MAY  24 


Monday — 

\/[7ITNESS,     O     Church,     with 
^  ^        whom  His  promised  Spirit 
Dwells  through  the  ages,  His  ever- 
gracious  Will. 
Friend    of    the    friendless,    outcast, 
downtrodden, 

O  come,  Son  of  Mary, 
Jesu,  our  Redeemer, 
O  come.  King  triumphant,  and  reign 
on  earth! 

Then  rise.  Lord,  we  pray  Thee,  and 

heal  the  nations'  sickness: 
Rise,  Thou,  for  whom  amid  the  night 

we  wait: 
Our  eyes   are  dim  with  vigils,  our 

hearts  with  hope  are  aching. 
O  come,  Son  of  Mary, 
Jesu,  our  Redeemer, 
O  come.  King  triumphant,  and  reign 

on  earth! 

Selwyn  Image. 

203 


MAY  25 


Tuesday — 

A  LL  men  are  turning  their  eyes 
^^^**  today  anxiously  to  see  whether 
in  the  midst  of  our  social  state, 
strained  as  it  is  by  industrial  per- 
plexities, wearied,  overburdened,  be- 
clouded, there  be,  present  here  on 
earth,  a  holy  society  in  which  God 
has  set  up  his  throne,  whose  mem- 
bers, trained  and  fashioned  in  a 
heavenly  city,  can  bring  to  bear  upon 
social  difficulties  the  mind  of  those 
who  know  what  corporate  citizen- 
ship and  the  responsibilities  of  a 
brotherhood  should  mean. 

Henry  Scott  Holland, 


204 


MAY  26 


Wednesday — 
F    Jesus    stood   today    amid   our 


I 


modern  life,  with  that  outlook 
on  the  condition  of  all  humanity 
which  observation  and  travel  and  the 
press  would  spread  before  him,  and 
with  the  same  heart  of  divine  human- 
ity beating  in  him,  he  would  create 
a  new  apostolate  to  meet  the  new 
needs  in  a  new  Harvest-time  of  his- 
tory. 

Walter  Rauschenhusch :  Christianity 
and  the  Social  Crisis, 


205 


MAY  27 


Thursday — 

E  need  to  enlarge  our  idea  of 


w 


the  meaning  of  the  evangeli- 
zation of  the  soul  in  the  perfect  so- 
ciety. Since  the  soul,  the  man  him- 
self, cannot  be  fully  saved,  or  made 
whole  and  strong,  as  long  as  the 
soul's  environment,  its  conditions  of 
life,  are  unfavorable,  all  social  work, 
all  educational  work,  all  medical 
work,  all  industrial  work,  is  work 
done  for  the  soul  and  is  a  part  of  its 
salvation, 

r.  E.  Slater, 


206 


xMAY  28 


Friday-  -- 

milE  Church  is  in  the  v/orld  to 
^  change  the  world  so  that  its 
whole  extent  may  be  filled  with  the 
glory  of  God,  and  may  be  worthy  of 
the  eternal  destiny  of  the  souls  of 
men.  Hers  is  a  high  and  costly  ven- 
ture. She  has  strongholds  to  storm, 
the  entrenchments  where  the  forces 
of  private-mindedness  and  apathy 
and  money  worship  are  dug  in.  In 
the  attempt  she  can  exhaust  to  its 
depths  the  capacity,  which  is  in  man 
for  dauntless  sacrifice. 

E.  Talhot. 


2or 


MAY  29 


Saturday — 

XJOTHING  must  ever  make  us 
"^^  forget  that  we  belong  to  a 
Body  that  is  in  the  world  to  recreate 
and  make  that  world  new.  Recon- 
struction is  the  very  task  that  we 
ought  to  be  really  at  home  with :  no 
bitter  taunts  about  our  corporate  in- 
effectiveness, no  consciousness  of 
failures  on  our  own  part,  ought  ever 
to  cause  us  to  be  forgetful  of  the 
fact  that  the  Chutch,  tlie  Body  of 
Christ,  has  a  divine  mission  towards 
the  fashioning  of  the  social  order. 
That  is  why,  somehow,  we  must  lift 
up  our  voice  at  a  moment  when  talk 
of  reconstruction  is  rife,  and  minds 
are  everj^^here  directing  themselves 
to  the  various  problems  of  future 
well-being  that  the  war  so  tremend- 
ously raises. 

The  Commonwealth^  ,  ■. 
208  ^ 


TRINITY 

THE  BLESSED  TRINITY 

A  ND  they  rest  not  day  nor  night, 
^^^^       saying  Holy,  Holy,  Holy. 

That  Thou  hast  created  all  things, 
and  for  Thy  pleasure  they  are  and 
were  created, 

Good  Lord,  we  thank  Thee. 
Hallowed  be  Thy  name. 

We   beseech   Thee   to  hear   us. 
Good  Lord. 


^209 


MAY  SO 


Sunday — 

/^H,  grace  abounding,  whereby  I 
^-^  presumed  to  fix  my  look  on  the 
eternal  light  so  long  that  I  consumed 
my  sight  thereon! 

Within  its  depths  I  saw  ingath- 
ered,  bound  by  Love  in  one  volume, 
the  scattered  leaves  of  all  the  uni- 
verse. ... 

O  Light  Eternal,  who  only  in 
Thyself  abidest,  only  Thyself  dost 
understand,  and  to  Thyself  self-un- 
derstood, self -understanding,  turnest 
love  and  smiUng! 

Dante:  ParadisOi 


sio 


MAY  31 


Monday — 

rpHAT    social    thought    of    God 
'■'      which  we  call  the  doctrine  of 
the  Trinity. 

Phillips  Brooks. 


QURELY  religion  has  forsworn  it- 
^  self  if  it  has  abandoned  its  claim 
to  lift  men  out  of  loneliness.  Yet  a 
religion  that  cannot  name  its  God  is 
powerless  to  arrive  at  a  brotherhood 
even  of  two. 

Henry  Scott  Holland. 


211 


JUNE  1 


Tuesday — 

rpHE  Vision  of  God  is  the  call  of 
-■"  the  prophet:  and  the  Vision  of 
God  given  to  us  today  in  the  Triune 
Name  is  our  call,  our  message,  our 
chastening.  Let  us  all  thank  God, 
on  this  Festival  of  Revelation,  that 
He  has  called  us  in  the  fulfilment  of 
our  prophet's  office  to  unfold  a  grow- 
ing message,  and  not  to  rehearse  a 
stereotyped  traditon. 

Bishop  Westcott:  Christus 
Consummator. 


212 


JUNE  2 


Wednesday — 

|~AERE  frend  thou  art,  to  wit, 
-■^  there  is  but  One  Godde.  And 
thou  art  to  wit  that  no  good  may  fail 
in  Godde;  but  because  that  a  swete 
thing  and  a  good  thing  is  comforte 
of  fellowship,  therefore  may  not 
Godde  be  without  goodnes  of  fellow- 
ship. Then  behooveth  it  that  there 
were  many  Persons  in  Godde  the 
Heyest  Gudeness.  And  because 
that  Onehead  is  good  and  Many- 
head  also,  therefore  it  behooved  that 
Onehead  and  Manyhead  both  were 
in  Godde.  And  by  this  skill  comes 
man  to  the  knowing  of  Godde,  that 
He  is  a  Godde  in  Himself  and  thre 
in  Persons. 

Richard  Rolle:  The  Mirror  of  St. 
Edmund,  Fourteenth  Century. 


213 


JUNE  3 


Thursday — 

T  F  truth  is  correspondence  with  ul- 
^  timate  reality,  and  personaHty  is 
the  only  truth,  then  ultimate  reality 
must  be  personal,  and  the  universe 
becomes  a  system  of  personal  rela- 
tionships. But  this  is  what  the 
Christian  religion  has  always  main- 
tained, imagining  God  not  only  as 
]3ersonal,  but  as  a  perfect  unity  of 
personalities,  and  His  only  reflec- 
tion here  on  earth  a  society  built 
round  a  personality  at  once  human 
and  divine. 

W.  E.   Orchard:   The   Outlook  for 

Religion. 


214 


JUNE  4 


Friday — 

r>  ECONSTRUCTION  is  an  at- 
^  ^  tempt  to  create  a  state  of  things 
in  political  and  industrial  as  well  as 
in  personal  life,  in  accordance  with 
the  vision  which  God  has  given  us, 
the  vision  of  the  family  life  in  the 
household  of  the  One  Father,  where 
all  unite  in  the  one  service  which  is 
perfect  freedom.  This  is  the  su- 
preme adventure  of  our  time. 

The  Bishop  of  Peterborough,  1917. 


nPHE  ancient  Catholic  charter  of 
human  freedom, — the  doctrine  of 
the  Trinity. 

A.  V,  G.  Allen. 


215 


JUNE  5 


Saturday — 

rpHE  uncaused  self -existent  Eter- 
-"-  nal  is  indeed  One,  One  God. 
But  within  the  bright  divine  shrine 
and  sanctuary  of  Godhead  there  is 
more-than-Oneness.  Deit}^  is  no 
bright  soHtude,  but  the  Scene  of 
mutual  affection.  Deity  contains 
forever  the  mighty  flow  and  move- 
ment of  an  infinite  Life  of  respond- 
ing interacting  Love. 

Bishop  Monte. 


216 


I 


TRINITY  I 

DIVES  AND  LAZARUS 

F   a  man   say,   I   love   God,   and 
hateth  his  brother,  he  is  a  Har. 


That  our  poTtion  may  be  with  Laz- 
arus and  not  v/ith  Dives, 

We  beseech   Thee  to  hear  us, 
Good  Lord. 


217 


JUNE  6 


Sunday — 

ALMIGHTY   GOD,   pardon 


o 


the  luxury  of  our  age,  and 
grant  that  those  who  live  in  stately 
dwellings  and  fare  sumptuously 
every  day  may  be  brought  to  hunger 
and  thirst  after  righteousness,  that 
they  may  be  filled  with  thine  ever- 
lasting sweetness,  and  may  not  be 
shut  out  from  the  eternal  home  which 
thou  hast  provided  for  such  as  wait 
upon  thee  in  holiness:  through  Jesus 
Christ  Our  Lord. 
Amen. 

Father  Benson,  S.  S.  J.  E 


218 


JUNE  7 


Monday — 

rriHE  rich  man  in  torment  could 
^  have  alleged  how  much  good 
he  did  with  his  fortune,  how  many 
trades  he  encouraged  by  his  purple 
and  fine  linen,  and  faring  sumptu- 
ously every  day,  and  how  he  con- 
formed to  the  ends  and  advantages 
of  society  by  so  spending  his  estate. 
William    Law:    Christian    Perfection. 


219 


JUNE  8 


Tuesday — 

IDERHAPS  there  cannot  be  a  bet- 
^  ter  way  of  judging  of  what  man- 
ner of  spirit  we  are  of,  than  to  see 
whether  the  actions  of  our  life  are 
such  as  we  may  safely  •  commend 
them  to  God  in  our  prayers. 

O  Lord,  I,  Thy  sinful  creature, 
who  am  born  again  to  a  lively  hope 
of  glory  in  Christ  Jesus,  beg  of  Thee 
to  orant  me  a  thousand  times  more 
riches  than  I  need,  that  I  may  be 
able  to  gratify  myself  and  family  .  .  . 
Grant  that  ...  I  may  still  abound 
more  and  more  in  wealth,  and  that  I 
may  see  and  perceive  all  the  best  and 
surest  ways  of  growing  richer  than 
any  of  my  neighbors;  this  I  humbly 
aad  fervently  beg  in  the  name  of 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lord  and  Saviour. 

Amen, 
220 


JUNE  9 


Wednesday — 

"^^rOE  be  to  the  shepherds  of  Is- 
^  ^  rael  that  do  feed  themselves! 
should  not  the  shepherds  feed  the 
flock?  .  .  .  The  diseased  have  ye  not 
strengthened,  .  .  .  neither  have  ye 
bound  up  that  which  was  broken, 
neither  have  ye  brought  again  that 
which  was  driven  away  .  .  .  but  with 
force  and  with  cruelty  have  ye  ruled 
them. 

Ezehiel  XXXIV, 


\  ND  her  merchandise  and  her  hire 
'^~*'  shall  be  holiness  to  the  Lord:  it 
shall  not  be  treasured  nor  laid  up; 
for  her  merchandise  shall  be  for  them 
that  dwell  before  the  Lord,  to  eat 
sufficiently,  and  for  durable  clothing. 

Isaiah  J  XXIII. 


22J 


JUNE  10 


Thursday — 

r^IVES  for  his  delicate  life  to  the 

^^^       devil  went, 

And  Lazarus  the  lean  that  longed 

for  the  crumbs, 
Yet  since  I  saw  him  sit,  as  he  a  Lord 

were. 
In  all  manner  of  ease,  in  Abraham's 

lap; 
And   if  thou   be   a  man   of   power, 

Piers,  I  counsel  thee. 
To  all  that  cry  at  thy  gate  for  food 

for  the  love  of  God 
Give  them  of  thy  loaf,  yea  though 

thou  have  less  to  chew. 

Langland:  The  Vision  of  Piers  the 

Plowman, 


222 


JUNE   11 


Friday — 

TT  is  frequently  useless  talking  to 
"■•  men  about  self-help  whilst  they 
are  bound  hand  and  foot  by  condi- 
tions of  life  which  render  self-help 
morally  impossible  and  kill  all  hope. 
It  is  vain  to  demand  of  men  that 
they  lead  self-respecting  lives  whilst 
landlords  exact  exorbitant  rent  for 
mere  garrets  and  hovels:  and  it  is 
mere  mockery  to  talk  of  thrift  to  a 
man  who  is  unable  to  obtain  a  life- 
supporting  wage. 

FcUher  Cuthhert,  0.  S.  F.   C. 


228 


JUNE  12 


Saturday — 

1\/E  are  not  told  that  the  Master 
^  ^  made  the  smallest  use  of 
money  for  His  ends.  When  He 
]3aid  the  Temple  rate,  He  did  it  to 
avoid  giving  offense,  and  He  de- 
fended the  woman  who  divinely 
wasted  it.  .  .  .  Ten  times  more 
grace  and  magnanimity  would  be 
needed,  wisely  and  lovingly  to  avoid 
making  a  fortune,  than  it  takes  to 
spend  one  for  what  are  called  good 
objects  when  it  is  made. 

George  Macdonffld:  Sir  Gibbie. 


224 


TRINITY  II 


MISSIONS 


^T^HIS   is  his  commandment,   that 
we  should  beheve  on  the  name 
of  his  Son  Jesus  Christ,  and  love 
one  another. 


That  we  ma^^  compel  all  peoples  to 
come  in  to  the  Supper  of  the  Lord, 
We  beseech   Thee   to  hear   us, 
Good  Lord. 


225 


JUNE   13 


Sunday — 

CAIL   forth— Steer  for  the   deep 

^       waters  only  .  .  . 

For  we  are  bound  where  mariner  has 

not  yet  dared  to  go, 
And  we  will  risk  the  ship,  ourselves 

and  all  .  .  . 
O  daring  joy,  but  safe!     Are  they 

not  all  the  seas  of  God? 

Walt    Whitman. 


226 


JUNE  14 


Monday — 

lyl /"E  are  very  active  in  the  devel- 
^  ^  opment  of  foreign  mission 
work.  Do  we  not,  however,  some- 
times overlook  the  fact  that  the 
truest  way  by  which  to  spread  Jesus 
Christ  in  other  lands  is  by  showing 
the  influence  which  He  has  on  us  at 
home? 

H.  Russell  Wakefield. 


227 


JUNE  15 


Tuesday — 

r>  EPORTS  came  from  the  great 
'*■  ^  missionary  conference  at  Edin- 
burgh that  the  most  hindering  ob- 
stacle to  the  spread  of  Christianity 
in  the  East  is  the  knowledge  that 
Eastern  travellers  and  students  have 
gained  of  the  effect  of  Christianity 
upon  the  civilization  of  the  West. 

F.  I.  Paradise:  Christianity  and 
Commerce. 


228 


JUNE  16 


Wednesday — 

OUT  OF  BOUNDS 

A  LITTLE     Boy     of    heavenly 
birth, 
But  far  from  home  today, 
Comes   down  to  find  His  ball,  the 
earth, 

That  sin  has  cast  away. 
O  comrades,  let  us  one  and  all 
Join  in  to  give  Him  back  His  ball! 

John  B.  Tabb. 


129 


JUNE  17 


Thursday— 

T  T  is  no  wonder  that  the  behaviour 
^  of  men  who  are  nominally  Chris- 
tians,— Christians  in  profession  if 
not  in  practice, — has  checked  and 
still  checks  the  progress  of  Christian- 
ity. The  missionary  comes  preach- 
ing the  gospel  of  peace  and  love,  but 
when  the  natives  see  the  rapacity 
and  injustice  of  men  professing 
the  religion  which  the  missionary 
preaches,  the  preachings  lose  their 
power. 

Lord  Bryce. 


230 


JUNE  18 


Friday — 

"ITL  ^E  send  the  Gospel  Eastward 
^  ^  not  only  because  we  are  cer- 
tain that  the  East  needs  Christ,  but 
also  because  we  are  beginning  to  feel 
that  we  shall  never  get  a  full  vision 
of  Christ  or  a  world  view  of  Chris- 
tianity until  the  East  has  brought  its 
contribution  both  to  our  thought  and 
practice  of  the  Christian  faith. 

But  while  we  must  see  to  it  that 
nothing  allow^s  foreign  missionary 
enterprise  to  ^  suffer  at  this  time, 
there  is  another  problem  of  even 
greater  dimensions,  namely,  that  of 
re-evangelizing  Europe.  This  com- 
promised Christianity  must  go. 

W.  E,  Orchard:  The  Outlook  for 
Religion. 


231 


JUNE  19 


Saturday — 

T^EAll  not:  for  I  am  with  thee:  I 
^  will  bring  thy  seed  from  the  east, 
and  gather  thee  from  the  west;  I 
will  say  to  the  north,  Give  up;  and 
to  the  south,  Keep  not  back;  bring 
my  sons  from  far,  and  my  daughters 
from  the  ends  of  the  earth;  even 
every  one  that  is  called  by  my  name : 
for  I  have  created  him  for  my  glory, 
I  have  formed  him ;  yea,  I  have  made 
him. 

Isaiah,  XLIII. 


282 


TRINITY  III 

THE  BODY  OF  CHRIST 

BE  subject  to  one  another;  and  be 
clothed  with  humiUty. 

That  Thou  Who  art  the  God  of  all 
grace  wilt  make  us  perfect,  stab- 
lish,  strengthen,  settle  us. 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us, 
Good  Lord. 


233 


JUNE  20 


Sunday — 

C\^  courtesy,  as  says  St.  Paul, 
^^       Members  of  Christ  we  may 

be  seen. 
As  head  and  arm  and  leg,  and  all, 
Bound  to  the  body  close  have  been. 
Each  Christian  soul  himself  may  call 
A  living  limb  of  his  Lord,  I  ween. 
And  see  how  neither  hate  nor  gall 
'Twixt  limb  and  limb  may  intervene; 
The   head   shows   neither    spite   nor 

spleen, 
Though  arm  and  finger  jewelled  be, 
So  fare  we  all  in  love  serene. 
As  kings  and  queens  by  courtesy. 

The  Pearl:  Tr,  Sophie  Jewett, 


234 


JUNE  21 


Monday — 

THE  mission  of  the  Church  is 
evident:  the  Church's  creden- 
tials are  clear:  the  need  of  the  world 
is  great.  Nothing  could  be  more 
weak  and  pitiable  than  for  the 
churches  to  confess  that  whole  prov- 
inces of  Hfe  lie  beyond  their  interest. 
Nothing  could  be  more  cruel  and 
cowardly  than  for  the  Churches  to 
say  that  they  have  no  word  to  offer 
on  the  problems  which  make  the  peril 
and  the  opportunity  of  our  time. 
Nothing  could  be  more  calamitous 
and  short-sighted  than  for  the 
Churches  to  leave  to  outsiders,  to 
unbeHevers  often,  the  discussion  of 
current  wrongs  and  the  leadership 
in  moral  reform. 

Bishop  Huntington, 


235 


JUNE  2% 


Tuesday — 

^T^HE  only  thing  we  judge  by  is 
-*■  what  the  Church  is  doing  in  the 
matter  of  the  great  social  evils.  We 
are  fighting  for  Democracy,  and  all 
that  it  stands  for.  We  believe  in  it 
passionately.  We  are  coming  back 
keen  to  do  all  we  can  for  our  God 
and  country,  to  realize  the  dreams  of 
a  free  and  happy  England  in  a  free 
and  happy  world,  the  dreams  which 
have  sustained  and  made  life  worth 
while  when  things  have  been  hardest. 
How  are  you  at  home  going  to 
meet  us? 

The  Challenge,  1917. 


236 


JUNE  23 


Wednesday — 

\^ 7'E  shall  not  get  to  the  Christian 
^  ^  basis  of  industry  until  we  come 
to  recognize  in  industry  also  that 
there  is  no  such  thing  as  independ- 
ence, and  that  the  greatest,  and  the 
richest,  and  the  strongest,  is  great 
only  as  he  is  the  servant  of  the  weak 
and  the  poor. 

Lyman  Abbott:  Christianity  and  Social 

Problems. 


np HERE  will  be  in  the  Christian 
society  no  governed  and  gov- 
erning classes,  no  outside  body  like 
the  slaves  of  the  ancient  city,  like 
the  melancholy  hands  who  pass  from 
factory  to  sleeping-place  along  the 
streets  of  a  modern  city.  In  the 
Christian  city,  each  will  be  bound  to 
all,  and  all  to  each. 

Canon  Barnett 
237 


JUNE  24 


Thursday — 

T?VEN  the  Apostles  must  have 
-*--^  found  it  hard  to  work  together. 
We  know  they  did.  Look  at  Peter 
and  Paul.  Yet,  the  Spirit  of  Unity 
was  stronger  than  all  that  opposed 
Him,  and  the  One  Body  was  in  some 
measure  realized.  What  was  difficult 
in  the  childhood  of  the  Body  is  still 
more  difficult  in  its  manhood.  .  .  . 
But  pray.  You  enter  then  into  an- 
other man's  "ego."  You  see  him  in 
God. 

Forbes   Robinson:   Letters    to   His 

Friends. 


238 


JUNE  25 


Friday — 

A  GAIN  and  again,  when  the  spirit 
"^"^  of  worldhness  and  competition 
has  corrupted  the  Church  at  large, 
earnest  men  have  gathered  them- 
selves together  and  formed  fresh 
centres  of  unselfish  life,  centres  of 
cooperation.  .  .  .  But,  alas!  the 
measure  in  which  we  have  realized 
our  ideal  is  nothing  com.pared  with 
the  boundlessness  of  our  failure 
hitherto.  .  .  .  The  Church  has  al- 
lowed the  spirit  of  the  world  to  en- 
ter into  her  and  she  has  altogether 
failed  to"  realize  her  catholicity  by 
making  her  power  felt  in  pclitics  and 
commerce.  ■  "Once  again  we  are  wak- 
ing to  our  duty. 

Bishop  Gore:  Prayer  and  the  Lord*s 

Prayer. 


239 


JUNE  26 


Saturday — 

rriHEY  will  not  fail  to  see  that 
^  even  in  the  seasons  of  her  deep- 
est degradation  the  Church  was  still 
the  regenerator  of  society,  the  up- 
holder of  right  principles  against  self- 
ish interest,  the  visible  witness  of 
the  invisible  God;  they  will  thank- 
fully confess  that,  notwithstanding 
the  pride  and  selfishness  and  dishonor 
of  individual  rulers,  notwithstanding 
the  imperfections  and  errors  of  spe- 
cial institutions  and  developments, 
yet  in  her  continuous  history  the  di- 
vine promise  has  been  signally 
realized. 

Bishop  Lightfoot. 


240 


TRINITY  IV 


THE  CHURCH  IN  ACTION 

T^OR  with  the  same  measure  that 
'*'  ye  mete  it  shall  be  measured  to 
you  again. 

That  we  wait  w^ith  earnest  expecta- 
tion for  the  manifestation  of  the 
Sons  of  God, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


241 


JUNE  27 


Sunday — 

r\  LORD  GOD! 

^-^    Thou  that  dweilest  in  the  Holy 

City 
Where  the  flags  of  peace  are  never 
furled. 
Pity!     Pity! 
Rouse  the  world! 


Wake  Thy  slothful  people!     They 

are  sleeping 
Far  without  the  City's  shining  wall. 
Wake  them,  for  a  mist  of  death  is 

creeping 
Over  all! 
Send  again  a  prophet  who  shall  lead 

them 
In  the  way;  a  prophet  who  shall  dare 
Scourge   them   out   of   sleep's   dead 

peace  and  speed  them 
Omvard  to  Thy  Kingdom, — peace  is 

tiiere.  Florence  Converse. 

242 


JUNE  28 


Monday — 

Church  Ass'n  for  Advancement  In- 
terests  of  Labor 

TN  1887  the  Church  Association 
'■'  for  Advancement  of  the  Interests 
of  Labor  (C.  A.  I.  L.)  organized  in 
New  York  City.  Its  principle  of 
brotherhood  was  apphed  through 
fraternal  relations  with  organized 
labor.  It  states  that  labor  in  its  true 
sense  is  the  standard  of  social  worth. 
.  .  .  This  society  was  the  first  to 
demand  that  all  manufacturing  be 
taken  out  of  tenement  houses,  to  end 
sweating  and  child  labor.  The  first 
practical  committee  (outside  of  labor 
unions)  of  conciliation  and  mediation 
was  established  by  the  society  in  New 
York  City,  1893 — an  important  fac- 
tor in  preventing  and  settling  strikes. 

243 


JUNE  29 


Tuesday — 

Church  Socialist  League 

T^NGLISH  organization  founded 
^^  June  13th,  1906.  The  League 
requires  its  members  to  be  convinced 
Socialists,  in  the  historical  and 
economic  meaning  of  the  word.  It 
is  thus  a  society  within  the  Church 
composed  exclusively  of  Socialists. 

American  organization :  President, 
Rt.  Rev.  Paul  Jones,  B.D.;  Vice- 
Presidents,  Rt.  Rev.  Benjamin 
Brewster,  D.D.,  Rev.  Eliot  White. 
National  Secretary,  Rev.  A.  L. 
Byron  Curtiss,  Utica,  N.  Y. 

The  League  Purpose:  To  further 
social  justice  by  prayer,  study  of  so- 
cialism and  working  so  far  as  pos- 
sible with  both  Churchmen  and  So- 
cialists for  an  increase  of  moral  and 
social  conscience  as  to  social  justice. 
2U 


JUNE  SO 


Wednesday — 

Social  Service  Dep't,  Girls'  Friendly 
Society  of  America 

TT  has  established  lodges  in  dif- 
^  f erent  parts  of  the  countrj^  where 
self-supporting  girls  can  find  a  home 
at  moderate  prices, — thus  supple- 
menting the  low  wages  of  the 
present,  while  constantly  looking 
forward  to  the  promotion  of  better 
conditions. 


24.5 


JULY  1 


Thursday — 

The    Joint    Commission    on    Social 
Service  of  the  Episcopal  Church 

/^UR  purpose  is  that  the  Church 
^-^  shall  not  be  wanting,  but  shall 
faithfully  respond  to  God's  call  and 
the  leading  of  His  Spirit  in  the  new 
day  that  is  before  us;  .  .  .  that  the 
Church's  influence,  corporately  and 
diffused  through  its  members,  shall 
be  a  force  dynamic  on  behalf  of  that 
democracy  which  is  akin  to  genuine 
Catholicity,  and  always  on  the  side 
of  social  justice  against  selfish  greed 
and  un-Christian  individualism. 

Let  me  remind  you  that  the  Joint 
Commission  on  Social  Service  comes 
with  the  same  authority  which  is  be- 
hind the  Board  of  Missions. 

Bishop  Chauncey  B.  Brewster:  Chair- 
man Joint  Social  Service 
Commission. 
246 


JULY  2 


Friday — 

Commission  on  the  Church  and  So- 
cial Service  Federal  Council  of 
Churches  of   Christ  in  America. 

PRINCIPLES  adopted  by  the 
-*•  Federal  Council:  .  .  .  Equal 
rights  and  complete  justice  for  all 
men  in  all  stations  of  life;  .  .  .  the 
abatement  and  prevention  of  poverty; 
.  .  .  and  for  the  protection  of  work- 
ers from  the  hardships  of  enforced 
unemployment;  .  .  .  for  the  right 
of  employees  and  employers  alike  to 
organize,  and  for  adequate  means  of 
conciliation  and  arbitration  in  indus- 
trial disputes;  .  .  .  the  gradual  and 
reasonable  reduction  of  hours  of  labor 
to  the  lowest  practicable  point,  and 
for  that  degree  of  leisure  for  all  which 
is  a  condition  of  the  highest  human 
life ;  for  a  living  wage  as  a  minimum 
in  every  industry,  and  for  the  highest 
wage  that  each  industry  can  afford. 
247 


JULY  3 


Saturday — 

Resolution   Passed   at   the   General 
Convention,  1916 

DE  IT  RESOLVED:  That  the 
service   of   the   community   and 
the  welfare  of  the  workers,  not  pri- 
marily private  profits,  should  be  the 
aim  of  every  industry  and  its  justifi- 
cation; and  that  the  Church  should 
seek  to  keep  this  aim  constantly  be- 
fore the  mind  of  the  public;  and  that 
Christians  as  individuals  are  under 
the  obligation  on  the  one  hand  con- 
scientiously to  scrutinize  the  sources 
of  their  income,   and  on  the  other 
hand    to    give    moral    support    and 
prayer  to  every  just  effort  to  secure 
fair  conditions  and  regular  employ- 
ment for  wage  earners,  and  the  ex- 
tension of  true  democracy  to  indus- 
trial matters. 

248 


TRINITY  V 

PATRIOTISM 

IDE  ye  all  of  one  mind:  knowing 
^^  that  ye  are  thereunto  called,  that 
ye  should  inherit  a  blessing. 

That  the  course  of  this  world  may 
be  so  peaceably  ordered  that  Thy 
Church  may  joyfully  serve  Thee, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


249 


JULY  4 


Sunday — 

r^  BEAUTIFUL     for     patriot 
^-^        dream 

That  sees  beyond  the  years 
Thine  alabaster  cities  gleam 

Undimmed  by  human  tears! 
America !    America ! 

God  shed  his  grace  on  thee 
And  crown  thy  good  with  brother- 
hood 

From  sea  to  shining  sea! 

Katharine  Lee  Bates. 


250 


JULY  5 


Monday — 

pERCANDO  Liberta!"  Don't 
^^  you  remember  those  words  of 
Dante?  They  always  seem  to  me 
our  national  motto.  Again  and 
again  we  believed  that  we  had  found 
Liberty.  The  Puritans  thought  so 
first, — with  their  vision  of  liberty  of 
the  state.  The  generation  of  the 
Civil  War  was  convinced  that  they 
had  fought  the  final  battle.  Every 
emigrant  that  comes  to  America 
thinks  to  find  freedom  here.  They 
were  all  wrong.  Liberty  waits  at 
the  end  of  the  journey;  she  is  not  a 
companion  of  the  way.  We  Ameri- 
cans must  climb  our  Purgatorial 
Mount  before  we  can  hope  to  find 
her,  but  she  is  waiting  for  us  on  the 
summit.  Pilgrims  of  Liberty!  It  is 
the  best  name  we  can  bear. 

Vida  D.  Scudder:  A  Listener  in  Babel. 
251 


JULY  6 


Tuesday — 

T  IBERTY  is  not  a  donation;  it 
^^  is  an  achievement.  It  dwells  on 
the  summit  of  a  mountain,  and  not 
at  its  base.  It  is  not  easy,  granted 
by  a  legislature,  but  must  be  at- 
tained by  infinite  toil  and  suffering. 

Charles  A.  Dinsmore. 


252 


JULY  7 


Wednesday — 

XJOT  only  the  tragedies  of  our 
^  times  may  teach  us  new  lessons 
as  to  what  international  duty  is,  the 
deeds  of  our  times  include  acts  which 
give  us  new  examples  never  known 
before  of  how  a  nation,  facing  a 
great  crisis,  can  be  guided  mainly  or 
solely  by  the  idea  of  duty — that  is, 
of  its  duty  as  a  nation  to  other  na- 
tions and  to  mankind. 

Josiah  Royce. 


253 


JULY  8 


Thursday — 

nn  HE  best  result  that  I  expect 
-*•  from  America's  entrance  into 
the  war  is  .  .  .  that  in  the  upbuild- 
ing of  democracy  and  permanent 
peace  throughout  the  world,  America 
and  Great  Britain  will  take  their 
part  together,  united  at  last  by  the 
knowledge  that  they  stand  for  the 
same  causes,  by  a  common  danger 
and  a  common  ordeal,  and,  I  will 
venture  to  add,  by  a  common  con- 
sciousness of  sin. 

Gilbert  Murray. 


254 


JULY  9 


Friday — 

/^UR  Father  in  Heaven,  make  us 
^^  true  lovers  of  our  country.  Help 
us  to  keep  the  promises  which  Amer- 
ica has  made  to  the  world,  to  be  the 
home  of  freedom  and  brotherhood 
and  justice  for  all.  In  our  happiness 
and  in  our  strength  put  us  in  mind 
of  the  pleasures  and  rights  of  others. 
Make  us  brave  and  truthful  and  fair. 
Keep  our  successes  free  from  boast- 
ing and  conceit.  And  when  we  fail 
and  are  defeated,  give  us  a  higher 
courage  and  a  stauncher  strength. 
Help  us  to  become  noble  and  great- 
hearted citizens,  an  honor  to  our  na- 
tion and  a  spring  of  hope  to  our 
neighbours;  through  Jesus  Christ, 
our  Lord.    Amen. 

A  Prayer  for  Patriotism 


255 


JULY  10 


Saturday — 

T    CONFESS  that  I  dream  of  the 
-■■      day  when  an  English  statesman 
shall  arise  with  a  heart  too  large  for 
England,  having  courage  in  the  face 
of  his  countrymen  to  assert  of  some 
suggested  policy:  *'This  is  good  for 
your  trade,  it  is  necessary  for  your 
domination,  but  it  will  vex  a  people 
farther  ofP;  it  will  profit  nothing  to 
the  general  humanity ;  therefore  away 
v/ith  it!"  .  .  .  When  a  British  Min- 
ister dares  to  speak  so,  and  when  a 
British  public  applauds  him  speak- 
ing, then  shall  the  nation  be  so  glori- 
ous that  her  praise,  instead  of  ex- 
ploding from  within  from  loud  civic 
mouths,  shall  come  to  her  from  with- 
out, as  all  worthy  praise  must,  from 
the  alliances   she   has   fostered   and 
from  the  populations  she  has  saved. 

Mr$,  Browning:  Poems  before  Congress. 
256 


TRINITY  VI 


THE  CLASS  STRUGGLE 

rpiRST  be  reconciled  to  thy 
^  brother,  and  then  come  and  of- 
fer thy  gift. 

That  we  may  walk  together  in 
newness  of  life, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us.  Good 
Lord. 


257 


JULY  11 


Sunday — 

piRST  love  God.  Extend  your- 
selves out  to  God,  and  whomso- 
ever ye  shall  be  able,  draw  on  to 
God.  There  is  an  enemy;  let  him 
be  drawn  to  God.  Draw,  draw  on 
thine  enemy;  by  drawing  him  on  he 
shall  cease  to  be  thine  enemy. 

Old  Homily, 


258 


JULY  12 


Monday — 

Tj^OR  all  practical  purposes  Eng- 
^  land  is  divided,  not  into  two 
nations  only,  as  Disraeli  said  many 
years  ago,  but  into  dozens  of  separate 
and  distinct  classes,  each  warring  to 
supplant  the  others.  When  the  class- 
war  is  spoken  of,  many  people  shrug 
their  shoulders  and  refuse  to  acknowl- 
edge its  existence;  but  the  war  of 
classes  is  here;  it  is  the  most  soul- 
destroying  fact  of  modern  life;  and 
every  reader  (let  him  realize  it)  is 
inevitably   one   of  the   protagonists. 

George    Lanshury :    Your   Part    in 

Poverty. 


259 


JULY  13 


Tuesday — 

■\/f  EN  talk  at  times  as  if  even  to 
'^  ^  speak  of  such  a  thing  as  class- 
division  were  to  create  it;  as  if  it 
were  to  stir  up  to  strife  the  lion  and 
the  lamb  who  would  otherwise  have 
lain  down  together.  But  it  is  the 
social  conditions  themselves  and  not 
the  references  to  them  that  create  the 
strife.  The  agitator  may  embitter 
the  strife,  but  he  does  not  create  the 
strife,  nor  create  the  conditions;  it 
is  the  conditions  that  create  the 
agitator.  Nay,  more:  so  long  as  the 
conditions  exist,  is  not  the  Christian 
himself  bound  to  be  in  some  sense 
an  agitator,  if  by  that  we  mean  a 
man  who  refuses  to  remain  silent 
because  silence  is  least  disturbing? 

r.  C.  Fry, 


260 


JULY  14 


Wednesday-^ 

rpHERE  are  in  Nature  indica- 
*  tions  of  a  divine  anger, — an 
anger  born  of  love  offended  and  out- 
raged. It  is  not  an  accidental  mani- 
festation. ...  It  is  incident  to  all 
wrong-doing,  even  as  are  pain  and 
remorse,  whereof  it  is  a  part.  It 
enters  not  only  into  what  man  suf- 
fers by  reason  of  his  perversion,  but 
also  into  the  suffering  of  the  victims 
of  such  perversion — the  enslaved  and 
the  oppressed — moving  them  to 
righteous  revolution.  There  is  a  re- 
sistance which  is  not  of  hatred  or  of 
revenge,  but  of  a  divine  motion 
within  us. 

Henry  M.  Alden:  God  in  His  World, 


261 


JULY   15 


Thursday — 

T  F  disputes  become  less  frequent  and 
^  less  bitter  in  the  future,  they  will 
be  diminished  not  through  exhorta- 
tions, or  menaces,  or  denunciations, 
still  less  through  attempts  directly 
to  prohibit  them,  but  through  the 
growth  of  a  spirit  of  co-operation 
and  of  social  service,  and  through 
the  removal  of  the  industrial  condi- 
tions which  at  present  foster  indus- 
trial unrest. 

Christianity  and  Industrial  Problems: 

The  Report  of  the  Archbishop's 

Fifth  Committee  of  Inquiry. 


262 


JULY  16 


Friday — 

T  IGHT  flashing  out  of  darkness 
^^  is  revealing  the  work  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  making  for  human 
brotherhood.  .  .  .  There  was  a 
leaven  of  the  Spirit  in  that  fraternal- 
ism  of  the  v/orking-classes,  and  that 
cannot  die. 

Bishop  Benjamin  Brewster, 


npHE  spirit  of  liberty  is  abroad 
^  and  it  cannot  be  suppressed, 
but  it  can  be  taken  into  the  service 
of  religion — as  it  was  in  times  by- 
gone— and  from  an  enemy  converted 
into  a  friend.  And  this  is  what  the 
Church  of  the  immediate  future  will 
do,  and  in  doing,  save  humanity  and 
herself. 

Father  Cuthhert,  0.  S.  F.  C. 
263 


JULY  17 


Saturday — 

rr^HE    crest   and   crowning   of   all 
^        good, 

Life's  final  star  is  brotherhood: 
For  it  will  bring  again  to  earth 
Her  long-lost  poesy  and  mirth, — 

And  till  it  comes  we  men  are  slaves, 

And  travel  downward  to  the  dust  of 
graves. 

Come  clear  the  way,  then,  clear  the 
way: 

Blind   creeds   and   kings   have   had 
their  day. 

Break  the  dead  branches  from  the 
path : 

Our  hope  is  in  the  aftermath. 

Our  hope  is  in  heroic  men. 

Star-led  to  build  the  world  again. 

To  this  event  the  ages  ran: 

Make  way  for  Brotherhood- 
make  way  for  Man! 

Edwin  Marhham:  From   the  Man   with 
the  Hoe  and  Other  Poems, 
264 


TRINITY  VII 

SOCIAL  SHAME 

l^HAT    fruit    had    ye    then    in 
^  ^     those   things   whereof   ye   are 
now  ashamed? 

For   the   end   of   those   things   is 
death. 

From  the  wages  of  sin 

Good  Lord  deHver  us. 


265 


JULY  18 


Sunday — 

T  T  is  that  denial  of  brotherhood— 
the  refusal  in  corporate  relations, 
social,  economic,  political,  national 
and  international,  to  recognize 
Christ's  authority  which  requires  us 
to  base  life  on  love, — it  is  that  which 
is  distinctively  the  "Sin  of  the 
World,"  our  Christianized  v\^orl(L 
This  is  the  sin  which,  being  finished, 
has  brought  forth  death.  This  is  the 
sin  which  the  War  judges — for  the 
war  is  only  this  sin  in  ripe  and  per- 
fect fruitage. 

H.  J.  W  other  spoon. 


266 


JULY  19 


Monday — • 

rpHERE  must  be  a  new  world  if 
there  is  to  be  any  world  at  all. 
That  human  things  in  our  Europe 
can  ever  return  to  the  old  sorry 
routine  and  proceed  with  any  steadi- 
ness or  continuance  there:  this  small 
hope  is  not  now  a  tenable  one.  These 
days  of  universal  death  must  be  days 
of  universal  new  birth  if  the  ruin  is 
not  to  be  total  and  final!  It  is  a 
Time  to  make  the  dullest  man  con- 
sider; and  ask  hmiself,  Whence  he 
came?  Whither  he  is  bound? — A 
veritable  "New  Era"  to  the  foolish 
as  well  as  to  the  wise. 

Thomas  Carlyle:  The  Present  Time, 

1860. 


267 


JULY  20 


Tuesday— 

YLrHAT  has  all  this  I^light  of 
^  ^  humanity  accomplished, — what 
has  it  done?  Take  the  three  chief 
occupations  and  arts  of  men,  one  by 
one,  and  count  their  achievements. 
Begin  with  the  first,  the  lord  of 
them  all,  agriculture.  Six  thousand 
years  have  passed  since  we  were  set 
to  till  the  ground  from  which  we 
were  taken.  How  much  of  it  is 
tilled?  How  much  of  that  wisely  or 
well? 

John  RusJcin:  The  Mystery  of  Life. 


268 


JULY  21 


Wednesday — 

A  FTER  agriculture,  the  art  of 
'^^^  kings,  take  the  next  head  of 
human  arts, — weaving,  the  art  of 
queens.  .  .  .  Six  thousand  years  of 
weaving,  and  have  we  learned  to 
weave?  Might  not  every  naked  wall 
have  been  purple  with  tapestry,  and 
every  feeble  breast  fenced  with 
sweet  colours  from  the  cold?  .  .  . 
We  set  our  streams  to  work  for  us, 
and  choke  the  air  with  fire,  to  turn 
our  spinning  wheels — and — are  we 
yet  clothed?  .  ,  .  Does  not  every 
winter's  wind  bear  up  to  heaven  its 
wasted  souls,  to  witness  against  you 
hereafter  by  the  voice  of  their  Christ, 
"I  was  naked  and  ye  clothed  me 
not"? 

John  Ruskin:  The  Mystery  of  Life, 


269 


JULY  22 


Thursday — 

rpAKE  the  art  of  building  .  .  . 
^  In  six  thousand  years  of  build- 
ing what  have  we  done?  .  .  .  The 
ant  and  the  moth  have  cells  for  each 
of  their  young,  but  our  little  ones  lie 
in  festering  heaps,  in  homes  that 
consume  them  like  graves,  and  night 
by  night,  from  the  corners  of  our 
streets,  rises  up  the  cry  of  the  home- 
less,  "I  was  a  stranger  and  ye  took 
me  not  in." 

John  Ruskin:  The  Mystery  of  Life. 


270 


JULY  S3 


Friday — 

a  CATTERING  wide  or  blown  in 

^^     ranks, 

Yello^v  and  white  and  brown, 

Boats   and   boats    from    the   fishing 

banks 
Come  home  to  Gloucester  town. 
•         ••••• 

But    thou,    vast    outbound    ship    of 

souls. 
What  harbor  town  for  thee? 
What    shapes,    when    thy    arriving 

tolls. 
Shall  crowd  the  banks  to  see? 
Shall  all  the  happy  shipmates  then 
Stand  singing  brotherly? 
Or  shall  a  haggard  ruthless  few 
Warp  her  over  and  bring  her  to, 
While  the  many  broken  souls  of  men 
Fester  down  in  the  slaver's  pen, 
And  nothing  to  say  or  do? 

William  Vaughn  Moody:  Gloucester 

Moors. 

271 


JULY  24 


Saturday — 

l\/f  AINTAIN  holy  and  true  jus- 
'*'  -*•  tice;  let  it  not  be  ruined  either 
for  self-love,  or  for  flatteries,  or  for 
any  pleasing  of  men.  And  do  not 
connive  at  your  officials  doing  in- 
justice for  money,  and  denying  right 
to  the  poor:  but  be  to  the  poor  a 
father,  a  distributer  of  what  God 
has  given  you.  And  seek  to  have  the 
faults  that  are  found  in  your  king- 
doms punished  and  virtue  exalted. 
For  all  this  ajDpertains  to  the  divine 
justice  to  do.  ...  I  tell  you  on  be- 
half of  Christ  crucified,  that  you  de- 
lay no  longer  to  make  this  peace. 
May  the  flame  of  holy  desire  to  fol- 
loAv  this  holy  Cross  and  to  be  recon- 
ciled with  your  neighbor,  increase  in 
you. 

Letters  of  St.  Catherine  of  Siena. 

272 


TRINITY  VIII 


INDIVIDUAL  HOLINESS 

VTOT  every  one  that  saith  unto 
^^  me  Lord,  Lord,  shall  enter  into 
the  kingdom  of  heaven;  but  he  that 
doeth  the  will  of  my  Father  which 
is  in  Heaven. 

That  we,  heirs  of  God,  may 
through  the  Spirit  mortify  the  deeds 
of  the  flesh, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


273 


JULY  25 


Sunday — 

A  M  I  a  glorious  spring 
^^  Of  joys  and  riches  to  my  King? 
Are  men  made   Gods?     And  may 
they  see 
So  wonderful  a  thing 
As  God  in  me? 
And  is  my  soul  a  mirror  that  must 

shine 
Even  like  the  sun  and  be  far  more 
divine  ? 

Thomas  Trakerne, 


274f 


JULY  26 


Monday — 

T^OR  the  sake  of  the  unfairly 
^  hindered  or  the  oppressed,  we 
need  social  reforms;  but  for  the  sake 
of  these  reforms,  we  need  most  of  all 
great  characters.  It  is  they  and 
they  alone  who  can  influence  the  will 
of  others  and  make  reform  a  reality. 
And  strength  of  personal  character 
is  wrought,  not  always  or  best  in  the 
stress  of  social  activity,  but  chiefly  in 
the  wrestling  of  a  man's  own  soul 
with  the  unseen  God. 

Dean  Church, 


275 


JULY  27 


Tuesday — 

\/l7E  look  out  with  ardor  on  the 
great  social  war  between  jus- 
tice and  injustice,  good  and  evil,  and 
we  are  eager  to  take  our  place  within 
it;  but  let  us  remember  that  our 
power  to  prevail  depends  on  the 
issue  of  that  same  combat  in  the 
arena  of  our  inner  self. 

The  greatest  social  truth  ever 
uttered  was  that  spoken  by  the  Son 
of  Man  as  He  passed  into  the  great 
struggle  by  which  He  overcame  the 
evil  of  the  world:  'Tor  their  sakes  I 
sanctify  Myself  ."—And  still  the  only 
abiding  force  of  social  redemption  is 
the  force  of  single  wills  surrendered 
to  the  will  of  God. 

W,  C.  Gordon  Lang. 


276 


JULY  28 


Wednesday — 

W/^  wrestle  with  the  problem  of 
^  ^  socialism  and  individualism, 
the  problem  of  the  many  and  the 
one;  and  we  wonder  which  of  the 
two  shall  ultimately  overcome  the 
other  and  remain  the  triumphant 
principle  of  human  life.  Let  us  be 
sure  that  to  Christ,  to  God,  there  is 
no  problem.  When  society  shall  be 
complete,  it  shall  perfectly  develop 
the  freedom  of  the  individual.  When 
the  individual  shall  be  perfect,  he 
will  make  in  his  free  and  original 
life  his  appointed  contribution  to 
society. 

Phillips  Brooks. 


277 


JULY  29 


Thursday — 

r^  HRISTIAX  Perfection  is  "such 
^^  as  men  in  cloisters  and  religious 
retirements  cannot  add  more,  and  at 
the  same  time,  such  as  Christians  in 
all  states  of  the  world  must  not  be 
content  with  less." 

IVilliam  Law:  Christian  Perfection. 


278 


JULY  30 


Friday — 

T  ET  every  one  therefore  put  his 
-*— ^  hand  to  the  work  which  falls  to 
his  share.  Those  who  rule  the  state 
must  use  the  laws  and  institutions  of 
the  country;  masters  and  rich  men 
must  remember  their  duty;  the  poor 
man  whose  interests  are  at  stake 
must  make  every  lawful  and  proper 
effort;  and  since  religion  alone  can 
destroy  the  evil  at  its  root,  all  men 
must  be  persuaded  that  the  primary 
thing  needful  is  a  return  to  Chris- 
tianity, in  the  absence  of  which  all 
the  plans  and  devices  of  the  wisest 
will  be  of  little  avail. 

Pope  Leo  XIII:  Encyclical, 


279 


JULY  31 


Saturday — 

npHE  greatest  contribution  which 
^  any  man  can  make  to  the  social 
movement  is  the  contribution  of  a 
regenerated  personaHty,  of  a  will 
which  sets  justice  above  pohcy  and 
profit,  and  of  an  intellect  emanci- 
pated from  falsehood. 

The  championship  of  social  justice 
is  almost  the  only  way  left  open  to  a 
Christian  nowadays  to  gain  the 
crown  of  martyrdom. 

Walter  Rauschenbusch:  Christianity  and 
the  Social  Crisis. 


280 


TRINITY  IX 

WAR  TO  END  WAR 

rpHESE    things  .  .  .  are   written 

^      for  our  admonition,  upon  whom 

the    ends    of    the    world    are    come. 

From  temptations  above  that  we 
are  able  to  bear, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us,  Good 
Lord. 


281 


AUGUST  1 


Sunday — 

OO  ail  in  vain  will  timorous  ones 

^     essay 

To  set  the  metes  and  bounds  of  Lib- 
erty. 

For  Freedom  is  its  own  eternal  law: 

It  makes  its  own  conditions,  and  in 
storm 

Or  calm   alike   fulfils   the   unerrini:^ 
Will. 

Nor    doubt    it    when    in    mad,    dis- 
jointed times 

It  shakes  the  torch  of  terror,  and  its 
cry 

Shrills  o'er  the  quaking  earth,  and  in 
the  flame 

Of  riot  and  war  we  see  its  awful  form 

Rise  by  the  scaffold,  where  the  crim- 
son axe 

Rings  down  its  grooves  the  knell  of 
shuddering  kings. 

John  Hay. 
282 


AUGUST  2 


Monday — 

rpHE  wars  we  wage 
^        Are  noble,  and  our  battles  still 
are  won 

By  justice  for  us,  ere  we  lift  the 
gage. 

We  have  not  sold  our  loftiest  herit- 
age. 

The  proud  republic  hath  not  stooped 
to  cheat 

And  scramble  in  the  marketj)lace  of 
war ; 

Her  forehead  weareth  yet  its  solemn 
star 

Who  leads  despised  men  with  just- 
unshackled  feet 

Up  the  large  ways  where  death  and 
glory  meet. 

William    Vaughn  Moody:  An   Ode   in 
Time  of  Hesitation. 


283 


AUGUST  3 


Tuesday — 

TT  is  clear  that  in  1914,  no  other 
^  course  was  open  to  any  nation 
implicated  than  to  join  issue  with 
the  aggressors.  But  this  was  the  re- 
sult, not  of  the  righteousness  of  one 
nation  as  distinct  from  that  of  an- 
other, but  of  the  universal  lack  of 
Christianity  in  the  whole  world. 
This  war  does  not  belong  to  the 
period  of  1914  onward.  It  is  the 
outcome  of  centuries  of  irreligion 
and  hypocrisy,  and  it  would  be  hard 
to  apportion  the  guilt  in  this  matter. 
To  do  so  is  not  the  business  of  Man, 
but  of  God. 

E,  M.    Venahles. 


284 


AUGUST  4 


Wednesday — 

T    LOVE   no   peace  which   is   not 

fellowship 
And  which   includes  not  mercy:   I 

would  have 
Rather  the  raking  of  the  guns  across 
The  world  .  .  . 
What !  Your  peace  admits 
Of  outside  anguish  while  it  keeps  at 

home? 
I  loathe  to  take  its  name  upon  my 

lips. 
'Tis  nowise  peace:  'tis  treason  stiff 

with  doom.  .  .  . 
O  Lord  of  peace  who  art  Lord  of 

righteousness, 
Constrain  the  anguished  worlds  from 

sin  and  grief, 
Pierce  them  with  conscience,  purge 

them  with  redress, 
And  give  us  peace  that  is  no  coun- 
terfeit ! 

Mrs.  Browning:  Casa   Gii'idi   Windows. 
285 


AUGUST  6 


Thursday — 

rilHE  Coming  of  the  Kingdom  of 
'*•  God  will  not  be  by  peaceful  de- 
velopment only,  but  by  conflict  with 
the  Kingdom  of  Evil.  We  should 
estimate  the  power  of  sin  too  lightly 
if  we  forecast  a  smooth  road.  Nor 
does  the  insistence  of  continuous  de- 
velopment eliminate  the  possibility 
and  value  of  catastrophe.  Political 
and  social  revolutions  may  shake 
down  the  fortifications  of  the  King- 
dom of  Evil  in  a  day.  The  Great 
War  is  a  catastrophic  stage  in  the 
coming  of  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

Walter  Rauschenbusch:  A   Theology  for 
the  Social  Gospel. 


286 


AUGUST  6 


Friday,  Feast  of  the  Transfiguration 

/^N  Tabor  we  say  confidently:  It 
^^  is  good  for  us  to  be  liere;  but 
God  judged  otherwise  and  brings  us 
to  Gethsemane.  That  good  should 
come  from  the  defeat  of  good  .  .  . 
is  an  intolerable  notion  to  our  nar- 
rowness; and  yet  we  have  evidence 
that  not  only  in  spite  of  but  through 
and  in  His  defeat  and  humiliation 
He  was  glorified. 

George  Tyrrell:  Oil  and  Wine. 


287 


AUGUST  7 


Saturday — 

rpHE  Transfiguration  has  shed 
^  its  light  upon  all  ages.  ...  A 
glimpse  of  the  divine  beauty  has 
broken  through  the  darkness  and  has 
cheered  the  humblest  pilgrims. 

Greatly  has  this  impression  been 
deepened  by  the  story  of  the  boy  in 
epilepsy,  which  follows  so  imme- 
diately upon  the  Tabor  vision.  .  .  . 
We  have  not  here  the  picture  of  a 
lazy  benevolence,  looking  down  from 
a  serene  region  of  enjoyment  upon 
a  world  of  misery  and  wishing  it 
well.  We  have  the  history  of  a  di- 
vine descent  into  the  misery  to 
wrestle  with  it,  to  bring  back  the 
victims  of  it  into  the  home  of  peace 
from  which  they  had  wandered. 

F.  D.  Maurice:  The  Gospel  of  the 

Kingdom, 

28& 


TRINITY  X 

THE  DAY  OF  OUR  VISITA- 
TION 

A  ND  when  he  was  come  near,  he 
"^^^  beheld  the  city  and  wept  over  it, 
saying:  if  thou  hadst  known,  even 
thou,  the  things  which  belong  unto 
thy  peace. 

Because  w^e  know  not  the  Day  of 
our  Visitation, 

Lord  have  mercy  upon  us. 


289 


AUGUST  8 


Sunday — 

rpHE  persistence  of  war  is  a  stag- 
^     gering   blow   to    the    claims   of 
Christianity.  .  .  . 

O  war,  I  hate  you  most  of  all  be- 
cause you  lay  your  hands  upon  the 
finest  qualities  in  human  life,  quali- 
ties that  rightly  used  would  make  a 
heaven  on  earth,  and  you  use  them 
to  make  a  hell  on  earth  instead. 

Harry  Emerson  Fosdick:  The  Challenge 
of  the  Present  Crisis. 


290 


AUGUST  9 


Monday — 

HE    one   great    religious    utter- 
ance of  the  war  is  the  'mani- 
festo' of  the  British  Labor  Party. 

Bishop  Brent. 


T 


nPHE  war  spells  the  ultimate 
^  doom,  not  of  one  militarism  but 
of  all  militarisms.  It  is  but  the  first 
step,  and  perhaps  not  the  least  fierce, 
toward  the  re-creation  of  Society 
from  end  to  end. 

The  Commonwealth, 


291 


AUGUST  10 


Tuesday — 

nn  HE  time  is  certainly  drawing 
^  near  for  the  workmen  who  are 
conscious  of  their  own  power  and 
probity  to  draw  together  into  action. 
They  ought  first  in  all  Christian 
countries  to  abolish — not  yet  war, 
which  must  yet  be  made  sometimes 
in  just  causes,  but  the  armaments 
for  it,  of  which  the  real  root-cause 
is  simply  the  gain  of  manufacturers 
of  instruments  of  death. 

John  Ruskin. 


292 


AUGUST  11 


Wednesday — 

n^HE  Christian  peacemaker  knows 
''"  that  there  are  multitudes  of 
people  who  are  trying  to  be  true  to 
the  higher  resistance  in  their  in- 
dividual lives,  but  he  knows  also  that 
the  higher  resistance  will  never  have 
its  perfect  way  with  men  until  it 
becomes  a  social  force,  and  is  made 
massive  in  attitudes  of  the  nation. 
He  knows  that  the  nation  which 
adopts  such  a  policy  takes  no  light 
risk  of  lesser  losses,  but  he  believes 
such  a  nation  will  save  its  own  soul, 
and  release  those  forces  which  will 
begin  to  save  the  soul  of  the  world. 
Congregationalist  and  Christian  World. 


293 


AUGUST  12 


Thursday — 

OO  shall  men 

^     Gazing   long  back  to  this   far 

looming  hour 
Say:  Then  the  time  when  men  were 

truly  men; 
Tho'  wars  grew  less,  their  spirit  met 

the  test 
Of  new  conditions;  conquering  civic 

wrong ; 
Guarding    the    country's    honor    as 

their  own. 

•         ••••• 

Defying  leagued  fraud  with  single 

truth ; 
Knights  of  the  spirit ;  warriors  of  the 

cause 
Of  justice  absolute  'twixt  man  and 

man. 

Richard  Watson  Gilder. 


294 


AUGUST  13 


Friday — 

np  HE  end  I  know  not,  it  is  all  in 
^       Thee, 

Or  small  or  great  I  know  not — 
haply  what  broad  fields,  what 
lands, 

Haply  the  swords  I  know  may  there 
indeed  be  turned  to  reaping  tools, 

Haply  the  lifeless  cross  I  know,  En- 
rope's  dead  cross,  may  bud  and 
blossom  there. 

Walt  Whitman, 


295 


AUGUST  14. 


Saturday — 

r^  OD  end  War!  but  when  brute 

^^     War  is  ended, 

Yet   there    shall   be   many   a   noble 
soldier. 

Many  a  noble  battle  worth  the  win- 
ning, 

JMany   a  hopeless  battle   worth   the 
losing. 

Life  is  battle, 

Life  is  battle,  even  to  the  sunset. 

Soldiers    of    the   Light  shall    strive 

forever. 
In  the  wards  of  pain,  and  ways  of 

labour. 
In  the  stony  deserts  of  the  city, 
In  the  hives  where  greed  has  housed 

the  helpless; 

Patient,  valiant. 
Fighting  with  the  powers  of  death 

and  darkness. 

Helen  Gray  Cone:  Soldiers  of  the  Light. 
296 


TRINITY  XI 

NATIONAL  HUMILITY 

T^  VERY  one  that  exalteth  himself 
^^  shall  be  abased:  and  he  that 
humbleth  himself  shall  be  exalted. 

From  offering  the  prayer  of  the 
Pharisee, 

Good  Lord,  deliver  us. 


297 


AUGUST  15 


Sunday — 

r\  Holy  Trinity,  One  God, 

^^      Have  mercy  upon  us. 

From  national  failure  to  serve  Thee 
and  all  mankind ;  and  from  selfish- 
ness of  every  sort  in  our  national 
purposes, 

Good  Lord,  deliver  us. 

From  injustice  within  the  nation; 
and  from  all  things  which  may 
hurt  and  hinder  the  progress  of 
democracy  among  us, 

Good  Lord,  deliver  us. 

From  all  hate  of  our  enemies, 
Good  Lord,  deliver  us. 

From  cowardice  and  the  shrinking 
from  hard  and  bitter  service;  and 
from  failure  to  sacrifice  for  the 
holy  ideals  for  which  the  nation  is 
contending, 

Good  Loi'd,  deliver  us. 

298 


AUGUST  16 


Monday — 

/^H,  by  the  unforgotten  name  of 

^^   eager  boys, 

Who  might  have  tasted  girls'  love 

and  been  stung 
With  the  old  mystic  joys  and  starry 

griefs.  .  .  . 
But  that  the  heart  of  youth  is  gener- 
ous— 
We  charge  You,  ye  who  lead  us, 
Breathe  on  their  chivalry  no  hints 

of  stain! 
Turn  not  their  new  world  victories  to 

gain! 
One  least  leaf  plucked  for  chaffer 

from  the  boys 

Of  their   dear  praise, 
One  jot  of  their  pure  conquest  put 

to  hire 
The  implacable  republic  will  require. 

William   Vauf^hn  Moody:  Ode  in   Time 

of  Hesitation. 

299 


AUGUST  17 


Tuesday — 

A  N  accurate  description  of  a  field 
of  battle,  of  a  rout,  of  a  siege, 
may  be  painful  beyond  what  we  can 
bear.  But  it  is  not  amiss  to  remem- 
ber that  there  are  other  human  suf- 
ferings which  would  not  prove  a 
pleasant  picture. 

J.  Llewelyn  Davies. 


^HE  assumption  that  agonies  of 

pain  and  blood  shed  in  rivers  are 

less  evils  than  the  soul  spotted  and 

bewildered  by  sin,  is  most  Christian. 

Ecce  Homo. 


800 


AUGUST  18 


Wednesday — 

nn  HE  only  cause  for  the  triumph 
^  of  which  we  can  pray,  is  the 
cause  of  Christ,  Truth  and  Peace. 
And  there  will  be  no  peace  for  the 
world  if  we,  forgetful  of  Our  Lord 
upon  His  Cross,  forgetful  of  His 
self-denial  and  His  forgiveness  of 
those  who  tortured  Him,  make  a 
peace  in  the  spirit  of  war.  For 
example,  it  will  be  no  peace  if  fight- 
ing on  the  battle-field  only  stops  to 
give  place  to  fighting  in  a  trade  war. 
The  Light  of  the  World  alone  can 
show  the  stricken  peoples  of  today 
the  light  of  peace. 

jB.  M.   Venables, 


301 


AUGUST  19 


Thursday — 

DREAK  down,  O  Lord,  the 
^^  temples  we  have  set  up  within 
ourselves  to  our  own  virtue,  as  Thou 
didst  break  with  gentle  touch  the  too 
great  confidence  of  Thy  devoted  am- 
bassador, St.  Peter. 

Help  us  to  build  in  their  stead  a 
spiritual  house  whose  altar  is  alight 
with  purest  offerings. 

Take  from  us  the  pride  that  looks 
on  humble  folk  as  common  or  un- 
clean, the  weakness  that  dare  not 
own  Thee  as  a  friend,  the  error  that 
would  make  of  Thee  an  earthly 
King. 

Give  us  the  blessing  of  a  generous 
heart  alive  with  sympathy,  of  ardent 
courage  to  follow  Thee  without  fail 
to  the  end,  of  quickness  to  see  in 
Thee  the  Son  of  the  Living  God, 
whose  Kingdom  is  not  of  this  world. 
302 


AUGUST  20 


Friday — 

'VrO  one  who  deeply  sees  die  evils 
^  that  our  fight  for  wealth  brings 
on  man,  with  an  incidence  more  ter- 
rible than  war  because  it  is  so  con- 
tinuous and  unrelieved,  can  call  it 
Christian.  War  brutalizes  men?  So 
does  our  economic  system.  .  .  .  War 
kills  men?  So  does  our  economic 
system.  .  .  .  There  is  hardly  a  kind 
of  agony  on  a  modern  battlefield  that 
has  not  its  counterpart  somewhere  in 
our  economic  struggle. 

Harry  Emerson  Fosdich:  The  Challenge 
of  the  Present  Crisis. 


803 


AUGUST  21 


Saturday — 

/^OD  of  Justice,  save  the  people 
^^  From  the  war  of  race  and  creed, 
From  the  strife  of  class  and  faction 
Make  our  nation  free  indeed; 
Keep  her  faith  in  simple  manhood 
Strong  as  when  her  life  began, 
Till  it  finds  its  full  fruition 
In  the  Brotherhood  of  Man! 

William  P.  Merrill 


304 


TRINITY  XII 


LIFE  FROM  WITHIN 


T7OR    the   letter   killeth;   but   the 
^     spirit  giveth  life. 

That  He  Who  made  the  deaf  to 
hear  and  the  dumb  to  speak  may 
open  our  ears  and  lips  to  receive  and 
repeat  His  message, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us.  Good 
Lord. 


305 


AUGUST  22 


Sunday — 

RIGHTEOUSNESS,  Peace, 
Joy" :  the  human  heart  welcomes 
these  three  characteristics  as  mark- 
ing the  society  which  answers  the 
promise  of  creation.  In  these  three, 
that  memorable  triad,  the  battle-cry 
of  revolution,  which  in  spite  of  every 
perversion  and  misuse  has  found  a 
wide  response  in  the  soul  of  nations, 
receives  its  highest  fulfilment.  In 
"righteousness,  peace,  joy,"  w^e  can 
recognize  "equality,  liberty,  frater- 
nity," interpreted,  purified,  ex- 
tended. We  must  make  it  clear  in  a 
shape  that  will  strike  the  imagina- 
tion of  the  multitude  that  the  notes 
of  the  Christian  society  are  righteous- 
ness, peace,  joy. 

BJxh^^    Westcott:   Social   Aspects   of 

Christianity. 

306 


AUGUST  23 


Monday — 

TN  1857  Charles  Kingsley,  in  an- 
"■•  swer  to  some  criticisms  of  Alton 
Locke  replied;  "We  would  teach  the 
people  to  become  Christians  by 
teaching  them  gradually  that  true 
socialism,  true  libertj^  true  brother- 
hood and  true  equality  (not  the 
carnal  dead  level  equality  of  the 
communist,  but  the  spiritual  equality 
of  the  Church  idea,  which  gives 
every  man  an  equal  chance  of  de- 
veloping God's  gifts  and  rew^ards 
every  man  according  to  his  work, 
without  respect  of  person)  is  only 
to  be  found  in  loyalty  and  obedi- 
ence to  Chirst." 

Charles  Kingsley:  Alton  Locke,  Prefa- 
tory Memoir,  p.  XXIX, 


307 


AUGUST  24 


Tuesday — 

T  OVE  one  another.  If  you  love 
"*— ^  one  another  there  can  be  no  so- 
cial oppression,  no  social  conflict. 
Love  one  another  and  the  world  will 
be  reformed.  It  will  become  again 
the  world  of  God;  in  which  charity 
reigns,  and  with  charity,  harmony 
and  order. 

S,  Francis, 


LOVE  God  and  do  what  thou  wilt. 

Saint  Augustine. 


308 


AUGUST  25 


Wednesday — 

T  T  is  only  because  we  are  so  divided 
■*•  one  from  another,  only  because  we 
are  so  ignorant  of  each  other's  lives 
that  we  submit  to  these  Unchristian 
conditions.  When  we  know,  we  shall 
all  unite  in  a  supreme  and  practical 
effort  to  destroy  the  man-made  con- 
ditions which  produce  the  evils  we 
have  so  genuinely  but  vaguely  de- 
plored. Then  we  shall  by  united  ef- 
forts build  a  new  state  based  on  the 
foundations,  not  of  hatred,  not  of 
competition,  but  of  brotherhood,  co- 
operation, love. 

George  Lanshury:  Your  Part  in 
Poverty. 


309 


AUGUST  26 


Thursday — 

I   SAW  that  each  kind  compassion 
that  man  hath  on  his  Even-Chris- 
tians with  charity,  it  is  Christ  in  him. 

Revelations  of  Divine  Love  recorded  by 

Julian  Anchoress  at  Norwich. 

Tr,  Gerenus  de  Cress y. 


310 


AUGUST  27 


Friday — 

nn  O  save  Society,  we  must  go  back 
^  to  the  old  fountain  head  of 
Christian  sacrifice.  Rank  is  nought, 
wealth  nought;  brotherhood  is  all. 
Let  us  make  up  our  minds  that  great 
changes  are  coming,  are  inevitable, 
are  just,  and  let  us  surrender  the 
moth  and  the  rust.  ...  It  is  pos- 
sible that  the  work  of  reconstruction 
may  carry  us  far  beyond  the  horizon 
of  the  changes  that  we  think  we  can 
now  see.  We  may  easily  learn  here- 
after to  accept  or  even  welcome 
changes  that  would  seem  revolution- 
ary today. 

r.  C.  Fry. 


311 


AUGUST  28 


Saturday — 

nPHE      life      and      splendor      of 
-■■       Felicity, 

Whose  floods  so  overflowing  be. 
The   streams    of   Joy    which    round 
about  his  Throne 
Enrich  and  fill  each  Holy  one, 
Are  so  abundant,  that  we  can 
Spare  all,  even  all  to  any  Man! 
And  have  it  all  ourselves! 
Nay,  have  the  more!     We  long  to 
make  them  see 
The  sweetness  of  Felicity. 

Thomas   Traherne. 


812 


I 


TRINITY  XIII 


LABOR:  ITS  CLAIMS 

S  the  law  then  against  the  prom- 
ises of  God?     God  forbid. 


That  in  the  love  of  our  neighbor  we 
may    find    the    hberty    whereby 
Christ  hath  made  us  free, 
We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us, 
Good  Lord. 


313 


AUGUST  29 


Sunday — 

\  7[  T'HAT  is  wanted  is  a  fresh  in- 
^  ^  spiration,  a  fresh  vision  of  the 
great  truth  which  Christ  gave  His 
life  to  proclaim,  that  not  only  have 
we  individual  souls  to  be  saved,  but 
that  the  individual  soul  cannot  be 
saved  unless  the  collective  soul  be 
saved  likewise. 

J.  Keir  Hardie. 


814 


AUGUST  30 


Monday — 

rpHE  law  of  service  is  universal, 
-■■  whether  we  will  it  to  be  so  or 
not.  As  we  ride  along  in  a  luxurious 
railway  coach,  we  are  profiting  by 
the  labor  of  all  who  helped  to  build 
the  road  or  construct  the  coach.  We 
should  lift  our  hat  to  the  working- 
man  with  his  shovel,  for  without  him 
we  would  be  making  our  journey  in 
the  stage-coach  of  the  past. 

Theodore  F.  Seward:  The  School  of 

Life. 

QEE  whence  honor  has  its  root. 
^  The  hands  of  cooks  procure  us 
to  be  honored,  so  that  to  them  we 
ought  to  feel  gratitude;  and  swine- 
herds supplying  us  with  a  rich  table, 
and  weavers  and  spinners  and  work- 
ers in  metal,  and  confectioners  and 
table  furnishers. 

Saint  Chrysostom, 
315 


AUGUST  31 


Tuesday — 

VIT'HAT  is  the  fundamental  evil 
in  our  modern  society  which 
we  should  set  out  to  abolish? 

There  are  two  possible  answers  to 
that  question,  and  I  am  sure  that  very- 
many  well-meaning  persons  would 
make  the  wrong  one.  They  would 
answer  Poverty,  when  they  ought  to 
answer  Slavery.  .  .  .  Poverty  is  the 
symptom;  slavery  the  disease. 

G.  D.  H.  Cole. 


316 


SEPTEMBER  1 


Wednesday — 

rpHESE  are  the  people  by  whose 
^  labor  the  other  inhabitants  are 
in  a  great  measure  supported,  and 
many  of  them  in  the  luxuries  of  life. 
These  are  the  people  who  have  made 
no  agreement  to  serve  us,  and  who 
have  not  forfeited  their  liberty  that 
we  know  of.  These  are  the  souls  for 
whom  Christ  died,  and  for  our  con- 
duct towards  them  we  must  answer 
before  Him  who  is  no  respecter  of 
persons.  They  who  know  the  only 
true  God,  and  Jesus  Christ  whom  he 
hath  sent,  and  are  thus  acquainted 
with  the  merciful,  benevolent,  gospel 
spirit,  will  therein  perceive  that  the 
indignation  of  God  is  kindled  against 
oppression  and  cruelty,  and  in  be- 
holding the  great  distress  of  so 
numerous  a  people  will  find  cause 
for  mourning. 

Journal  of  Juhn  Woolman,  1757. 

317 


SEPTEMBER  2 


Thursday — 

npHESE  are  they  who  build  thy 
-■■         houses, 
Weave    thy    raiment,     win     thy 
wheat, 
Smooth  the  rugged,  fill  the  barren. 

Turn  the  bitter  into  sweet. 
All  for  thee  this  day — and  ever. 
What  reward  for  them  is  meet? 
Till  the  host  comes  marching  on. 

On  we  march  then,  we  the  workers, 
and  the  rumor  that  ye  hear 

Is  the  blended  sound  of  battle  and 
deliv'rance  drawing  near; 

For  the  hope  of  every  creature  is 

the  banner  that  we  bear, 

And  the  world  is  marching  on. 

William  Morris:   The  March   of   the 

Workers. 


818 


SEPTEMBER  3 


Friday — 

^"P  HEY  helped  every  one  his 
^  neighbour;  and  every  one  said 
to  his  brother,  Be  of  good  courage. 
So  the  carpenter  encouraged  the 
goldsmith,  and  he  that  smootheth 
with  the  hammer  him  that  smote  the 
anvil,  saying.  It  is  ready  for  the 
sodering:  and  he  fastened  it  with 
nails,  that  it  should  not  be  moved. 

Isaiah,  XLI. 


rpHE  nineteenth  century  made  the 
world  into  a  neighborhood;  the 
twentieth  century  will  make  it  into 
a  brotherhood. 

Joseph  Cook, 


819 


SEPTEMBER  4 


Saturday — 

t^OR  many  years  a  Working  Man 

To  sanctify  the  worker's  life, 
He   shared   the   toil,   the   pain,   the 

cares 
With  which  the  worker's  lot  is  rife. 

Then  who  would  shun  a  life  of  toil? 
And  who  would  grudge  at  homely 

fare? 
Lord  Jesus,  give  us  grace  to  make 
Our  daily  work  a  daily  prayer. 

Episcopal  Female  Tract  Society. 


320 


TRINITY  XIV 


LABOR:  ITS  IDEALS 

D  UT  the  fruit  of  the  Spirit  is  love, 
joy,  peace,  long-suffering,  gen- 
tleness,   goodness,    faith,    meekness, 
temperance. 

That  Labor  and  Capital  may- 
overcome  the  works  of  the  flesh, 
which  are  hatred,  variance,  emula- 
tions, wrath,  strife,  seditions,  mur- 
ders, and  that  many  may  rejoice  in 
the  fruit  of  the  Spirit,  against  which 
there  is  no  law, 

We  beseech   Thee  to  hear  us. 
Good  Lord. 

321 


SEPTEMBER  5 


Sunday- 


T)  AISE  the  stone  and  thou  shalt 

^^  find  Me, 

Cleave  the  wood   and   I   am   there. 

Traditional  Saying  of  Our  Lord. 


322 


SEPTEMBER  6 


Monday — 

T    ET   us   pray   for   the   men   and 

^-^  women    throughout    the    world 

whose  Day  of  Hope  this  is. 
We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us.  Good 

Lord. 
That   under   the   leadership    of   the 

Carpenter,  I^abor  may  make  the 

world  a  home  of  happy  work  and 

love. 

For  a  living  wage  as  a  minimum  in 
every  industry. 

For  the  reasonable  reduction  of 
hours  of  labor  and  for  that  degree 
of  leisure  for  all,  which  is  a  con- 
dition of  the  highest  human  life. 

For  the  most  equitable  division  of 
the  products  of  labor  and  the  con- 
trol of  industry  that  can  ultimately 
be  devised. 

That   Labor   and   the   Church   may 
work    together    as    one    to    build 
Jerusalem  on  earth. 
323 


SEPTEMBER  7 


Tuesday — 

XAyTORKINGMEN !  Brothers ! 
^  ^  When  Christ  came  and 
changed  the  face  of  the  world,  he 
spoke  not  of  rights  to  the  rich,  who 
needed  not  to  achieve  them,  nor  to 
the  poor  who  would  doubtless  have 
abused  them  in  imitation  of  the  rich; 
He  spoke  not  of  utility  nor  of  inter- 
est to  a  people  whom  interest  and 
utility  had  corrupted;  he  spoke  of 
Duty,  he  spoke  of  Love,  of  Sacrifice 
and  of  Faith;  and  he  said  that  they 
should  be  first  among  all  who  had 
contributed  most  by  their  labor  to 
the  good  of  all. 

Joseph  Mazsini:  On  the  Duties  of  Man, 


a24 


SEPTEMBER  8 


Wednesday — 

VrO  man  has  worked,  or  can  work, 
except  religiously ;  not  even  the 
poor  day-labourer,  the  weaver  of 
your  coat,  the  sewer  of  your  shoes. 
All  men,  if  they  work  not  as  in  a 
Great  Taskmaster's  eye,  will  work 
wrong,  work  unhappily  for  them- 
selves and  you. 

Industrial  work,  still  under  bond- 
age to  Mammon,  the  rational  soul 
of  it  not  yet  awakened,  is  a  tragic 
spectacle.  .  .  .  Labour  is  ever  an 
imprisoned  god,  writhing  uncon- 
consciously  or  consciously  to  escape 
out  of  Mammonism. 

Thomas  Carlyle:  Past  and  Present 


325 


SEPTEMBER  9 


w 


Thursday — 

'HY  is  labour  unable  to  bring 
about  the  consummation  of 
what  it  wishes?  The  reason  lies  in 
the  inferior  status  of  labour  with 
regard  to  management  and  control 
of  industry.  "The  ill-will  of  Labour 
toward  Capital  and  Management  is 
not  wholly  a  question  of  their  re- 
spective share  of  earnings.  The 
fundamental  grievance  of  labour  is 
that  the  actual  conditions  of  in- 
dustry have  given  to  Capital  and 
Management  control  not  only  over 
the  mechanism  of  production,  but 
also  over  Labour  itself.  .  .  .  The 
labourer  feels  the  forces  against  him 
are  too  strong.  All  he  can  do  to 
fight  them  is  to  resort  to  the  strike, 
an  expedient  which  brings  the  acutest 
suffering  to  him  and  his  family  in  its 
train. 

Council   for  Social   Service   in   Canada. 
326 


SEPTEMBER  lo 


Friday — 

^HE    Archbishop    of  York  .  .  . 
strongly  supported  the  plan  for 
giving  a  share  in  management  to  the 
workers  in  any  industry.     We  are 
sure    that    he    is    right.      It    is   not 
reasonable    that    those    who    invest 
capital   in   the   shape   of  money   or 
plant  should  have  the  whole  control, 
while  those  whose  contribution  takes 
the  form  of  their  own  labor  should 
have  none.     Share  in  the  manage- 
ment should  be   for  the  workers   a 
permanent    right,    and    not    an    oc- 
casional concession. 

The    Challenge, 


827 


SEPTEMBER  11 


Saturday — 

T  F  we  in  Britain  are  to  escape  from 
^  the  decay  of  civilization  itself  .  .  . 
we  must  ensure  that  what  is  pres- 
ently to  be  built  up  is  a  new  social 
order,  based  ...  in  industry  as  well 
as  in  government  on  that  equal  free- 
dom, that  general  consciousness  of 
consent,  and  that  widest  possible 
participation  in  power  both  economic 
and  political,  which  is  characteristic 
of  democracy. 

Program  of  the  British  Labor  Party. 


S28 


TRINITY  XV 

THE  SUMIMONS  OF  THE 
CROSS 

/'^OD  forbid  that  I  should  glory 
^^  save  in  the  cross  of  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ. 

V.  Peace  be  upon  us,  and  mercy. 
R.  And  upon  the  Israel  of  God. 


829 


^Sil^i'TEMBEK   12 


Sunday — 

TF  it  is  not  beneath  the  Cross  of 

^    Jesus  that  nations  will  lay  down 

their  arms,  it  may  be  by  revolution 

among    the    armies    and    rebellion 

among  the  workers.     If  we  cannot 

secure    the    ending   of   the    war   by 

the  blood  of  the  Cross,  other  blood 

may  flow  which  will  not  cleanse  but 

only   cry   out   for   blood   the   more. 

But  it  may  need  a  crucified  Church 

to  bring  a  crucified  Christ  before  the 

eyes  of  the  world. 

W,  E.   Orchard:   The   Outlook  for 

Religion. 


830 


SEPTEMBER   13 


Monday — 

ll/^ITHIN  the  area  of  what  can 
^  ^  be  required  of  the  ordmary 
good  man,  Our  Lord  stands  over 
against  the  souls  of  men  abeady 
pious  and  God-fearing, — inviting  to 
sacrifice,  claiming  sacrifice,  meeting 
it  with  His  supreme  benediction,  as 
if  it  were  in  that  alone  that  the  true 
relation  of  the  soul  to  God  is  ex- 
hibited and  realized. 

Bishop  Gore:  The  New  Theology. 


331 


SEPTEMBER  14 


Tuesday — 

HESE  through  the  darkness  o 


T 


death,  the  dominion  of  night 
Swept,    and    they    woke    in    whit 

places  at  morning-tide; 
They  saw  with  their  eyes  and  san| 

for  joy  of  the  sight, 
They  saw  with  their  eyes  the  eyes  o 

the  Crucified. 

Lionel  Johnson:  Te  Marty  rum  Catidi- 
datus  Poems. 


382 


SEPTEMBER  15 


Wednesday — 

lyl  rHAT  we  need  in  our  national 
^  ^  prayer  is  the  acknowledg- 
ment of  a  Divine  pur^iose  greater 
than  all  national  aims.  If  faith 
[neans  trust  in  God  that  He  will  do 
what  we  desire,  or  even  what  we 
think  to  be  right,  such  faith,  as  his- 
tory proves,  will  be  again  and  again 
Frustrated.  But  faith  conceived  as 
trust  in  God's  plan,  and  a  belief  that 
2ven  through  humiliation  and  defeat 
3uch  as  we  see  in  the  Cross  of  Christ, 
God  works  out  the  triumphant 
achievement  of  His  purpose,  never 
Pails  and  is  never  disappointed. 

The  Challenge, 


393 


SEPTEMBER  16 


Thursday — 

\/f  ODERN  knowledge  has  an- 
^^  other  issue  to  offer  to  think- 
ing men.  It  tells  them  that  in  ordei 
to  be  rich  they  need  not  take  the 
bread  from  the  mouths  of  others 
but  that  the  more  rational  outcome 
would  be  a  society  in  which  men 
with  the  work  of  their  own  hands 
and  by  the  aid  of  the  machinery  al 
ready  invented  and  to  be  invented 
should  themselves  create  all  imagin 
able  riches.  .  .  .  They  guarantee,  a- 
least,  the  happiness  that  can  be  founc 
in  the  full  and  varied  excerise  of  th( 
different  capacities  of  the  human  be 
ing  in  work, that  need  not  be  over 
work,  and  in  the  consciousness  tha 
one  is  not  endeavoring  to  base  his  owi 
happiness  upon  the  misery  of  others 

Prince    KropotMn:    Fields,    Factories 
and  Workshops, 

334 


SEPTEMBER  17 


Friday— 

A  LL  that  God  has  given  us  be- 
^^^  yoiid  \\hat  is  necessary,  He  has 
not,  properly  speaking,  given  us. 
He  has  but  entrusted  it  to  us,  that 
it  may  by  our  means  come  into  the 
hands  of  the  poor.  To  retain  it  is 
to  take  possession  of  what  belongs 
to  others. 

St.  Augustine. 


335 


SEPTEMBER   18 


Saturday — 

VJOW  in  this  present  time,  mai 
^^  is  set  between  heaven  and  he] 
and  may  turn  himself  toward  whic 
he  will.  For  the  more  he  hath  c 
ow^nership,  the  more  he  hath  of  he 
and  misery;  and  the  less  of  self-wi 
the  less  of  hell,  and  the  nearer  he 
to  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  An 
could  a  man  while  on  earth  be  wholl 
quit  of  self-will  and  ownership,  an 
stand  up  free  and  large  in  God 
true  light,  and  continue  therein,  h 
would  be  sure  of  the  kingdom  c 
heaven. 

Tauler:  Theologia  Germanica. 


836 


TRINITY  XVI 
CHRISTIAN   WOMANHOOD 


/^F    whom    the    whole    famil}^    in 
^■^  heaven  and  earth  is  named. 


That     Christian     women,     being 

rooted  and  grounded  in  love,  may 

be  filled  with  all  the  fullness  of  God, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us, 

Good  Lord. 


337 


SEPTEMBER  19 


Sunday — 

A  ND  Deborah,  a  prophetess,  the 
-^^  wife  of  Lapidoth,  she  judged 
Israel  at  that  time.  And  she  dwelt 
under  the  palm-tree  of  Deborah  be- 
tween Ramah  and  Bethel  in  ISIount 
Ephraim:  and  the  children  of  Israel 
came  up  to  her  for  judgment. 

Judges,  IV, 


/^  LORD  send  the  guidance  of  the 
^-^  Spirit  to  all  women  newly  en- 
franchised, that  they  may  exercise 
their  power  soberly  and  in  wisdom, 
to  the  fulfilling  of  Thy  most  holy 
will,  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 
Amen. 


338 


SEPTEMBER  20 


Monday — 

nnHEY  tell  us  the  chief  charac- 
teristic  of  women  is  the  instinct 
of  nurture.  The  whole  trend  of 
thought  is  leading  us  to  apply  this 
instinct  to  all  suffering  and  neglected 
people.  But  by  nothing  so  much  as 
work,  is  our  pity  cleansed  of  senti- 
mentality. We  learn  to  discriminate 
between  the  good  and  the  bad  in  the 
present  social  order.  We  realize,  as 
we  never  could  from  the  narrower 
world  of  home,  how  the  coming  of 
justice  depends  on  an  interweaving 
of  the  social  and  the  individual,  of 
external  structure  and  of  character. 

Anna  Rochester. 


339 


SEPTEMBER  21 


Tuesday — 

OHE  saw  the  gleam  of  white  star- 
^  light,  she  felt  the  rush  of  vrings ; 
Through  the  little  door,  the  humble 

door,  came  simple  folk  and  kings. 
And  some  knelt  down  with  gifts  and 

praise,  and  some  with  tears  and 

prayers — 
And     suddenly     the     little     Christ 

seemed  less  of  hers  than  theirs. 

Scarce  one  white  hour  she  knew  her 

joy  before  the  world  came  in 
And  claimed  Him  at  Her  very  heart, 

the  heart  that  knew  no  sin. 
O    Mary,    not    a   mother   born    but 

knows  your  grief  one  day. 
Since  soon  or  late  the  world  comes 

in  and  takes  a  child  away. 

Theodosia  Garrison. 


340 


SEPTEMBER  22 


I 


Wednesday — 

F  children  are  ever  to  receive  their 
just  due  in  society,  if  Jesus's 
example  of  placing  a  child  in  the 
midst  is  ever  to  be  generally  imitated, 
probably  it  will  first  be  necessary  to 
see  to  it  that  woman  has  the  vote. 


Bernard  Iddings  Bell:  Right  and  Wrong 
After  the  War, 


841 


SEPTEMBER  2i 


Thursday — 

rpHROUGH  long  ages  of  un- 
-■'  tutored  barbarism  and  but  half- 
disciplined  force,  the  nun's  veil  was 
the  charter  of  woman's  freedom;  and 
in  the  cloisters  were  developed  types 
of  strong,  independent  womanhood, 
to  which  the  present  world  might 
well  look  for  examples  of  the  perfect 
woman. 

Father  Cuthbert,  0.  S.  F.  C. 


342 


SEPTEMBER  24 


Friday — 

A  LADY  abominates  a  sot,  as  a 
'^^  creature  that  has  only  the 
shape  of  a  man;  but  then  she  does 
not  consider  that,  drunken  as  he  is, 
perhaps  he  can  be  more  content  with 
the  want  of  hquor  than  she  can  with 
the  want  of  fine  clothes;  and  if  this 
be  her  case,  she  only  differs  from 
him  as  one  intemperate  man  differs 
from  another. 

William  Law:  Christian  Perfection. 


848 


SEPTEMBER  25 


Saturday — 

T    SAY  to  you  I  am  the  IMother; 

-■■        and  under  the  sword 

Which  flamed  each  way  to  harry  us 

forth  from  the  Lord 
I    saw   Him   young   at   the   portal, 

weeping  and  staying  the  rod, 
And  I,  even  I  was  His  mother,  and 

I  yearned  as  the  mother  of  God. 

William  Vaughn  Moody:  I  Am  the 

Woman,  Poems   and  Poetic 

Dramas. 


344 


TRINITY  XVII 

UNITY 

PNDEAVORING  to  keep  the 
^^  unity  of  the  Spirit  in  the  bond 
of  peace. 

That  we  be  of  one  body  as  of  one 
spirit, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us, 
Good  Lord. 


345 


SEPTEMBER  26 


Sunday — 

/^  HEART    of    mine,    keep    pa- 

^^      tience!  looking  forth, 

As   from   the   Mount   of   Vision,    I 

behold, 
Pure,  just,  and  free,  the  Church  of 

Christ  on  earth, — 
The  martyr's  dream,  the  golden  age 

foretold ! 
And  found  at  last,  the  mystic  Graal 

I  see. 
Brimmed  with  his  blessing,  pass  from 

lip  to  lip 
In  sacred  pledge  of  human  fellow- 
ship ; 
And   over  all  the   songs   of  angels 

hear, — 
Songs  of  the  love  that  casteth  out  all 

fear, — 
Songs  of  the  Gospel  of  Humanity! 

J.  G.   Whittier. 
846 


SEPTEMBER  27 


Monday — 

rpHE  noblest  word  that  I  have 
ever  heard  from  any  co-opera- 
tor was  this;  "You  cannot  make  this 
more  democratic  business  work,  with- 
out calHng  on  more  and  more  people 
to  help  you.  If  it  should  ever  con- 
quer the  hand-to-hand  fight  of  com- 
petition, then  everybody,  whether 
they  wanted  to  or  not,  would  have 
to  help  everybody  else." 

To  work  slowly  and  painfully 
toward  this  end  is  a  possibility  that 
need  not  be  deferred.  The  sacrifices 
that  it  requires  are  the  surrender  of 
many  things  that  are  now  our  vexa- 
tion and  our  curse. 

John  Graham  Brooks:  The  Social   Un- 
rest,  pp  379,  380.     Macmillan   Co., 

1903, 


347 


SEPTEMBER  28 


Tuesday — 

T  F  the  outward  were  the  measure 
-*■  of  the  Church  of  Christ,  we 
might  well  despair.  But  side  by 
side  with  us,  when  we  fondly  think, 
like  Elijah  or  Elisha's  servant,  that 
we  stand  alone,  are  countless  multi- 
tudes whom  we  know  not,  angels 
whom  we  have  no  power  to  discern, 
children  of  God  whom  we  have  not 
learnt  to  recognize.  We  are  come 
to  the  kingdom  of  God,  peopled 
with  armies  of  angels  and  men  work- 
ing for  us  and  with  us  because  they 
are  working  for  Him. 

Bishop    Westcott:   Christus   Consummator, 


348 


SEPTEMBER  29 


Wednesday — 

A    LOVELY  city  in  a  lovely  land, 
-^         Whose    citizens    are    lovely, 

and  v^hose  King 
Is  Very  Love;  to  Whom  all  angels 
sing; 
To  whom  all  saints  sing  crowned, 
their  sacred  band 
Salviting  Love  with  palm-branch  in 
their  hand. 
And   thither   thou,   Beloved,   and 

thither  I 
May  set  our  heart  and  set  our  face 
and  go. 
Faint  yet  pursuing,  home  on  tireless 
feet. 

Christina  Rossetti. 


849 


SEPTEMBER  SO 


Thursday — 

T  ET  our  imaginations  rest  on 
^--^  the  burning  love,  the  thrilling 
knowledge  of  those  dimly  spiritual 
beings,  archangels  and  angels,  on  the 
keen  joy  of  vision  which  has  been 
obtained  by  the  spirits  of  just  men 
made  perfect.  And  let  us  pray  that 
with  a  like  effectiveness,  to  be 
crowned  at  last  with  a  like  reward, 
God's  Will  may  be  done,  in  heaven 
as  on  earth. 

Bishop    Gore:    Prayer    and    the    Lord's 

Prayer,  p.  5Jf, 


350 


OCTOBER  1 


Friday — 

r>  EHOLD  O  Lord  how  Thy  faith- 
^  fill  Jerusalem  rejoices  in  the 
triumph  of  the  Cross  and  the  power 
of  the  Saviour;  grant  therefore  that 
those  who  love  her  may  abide  in  her 
peace  and  those  who  depart  from  her 
may  one  day  come  back  to  her  em- 
brace; that  when  all  sorrows  are 
taken  away  we  may  be  refreshed  with 
the  joys  of  an  eternal  resurrection, 
and  be  made  partakers  of  her  peace, 
\vorld  without  end.     Amen. 

Mozarabic  Sacramentary. 


851 


OCTOBER  2 


Saturday — 

rilHE  Church  has  three  special 
-*■  possessions  and  treasures;  the 
Bible,  which  proclaims  man's  free- 
dom; Baptism,  his  equahty;  the 
Lord's  Supper,  his  brotherhood. 

Charles  Kingsley:  Alton  Locke,  Prefa- 
tory Memoir. 


T^HE  Christian  nation  shall  not 
^  be  divorced  from  the  Christian 
Church.  The  day  is  coming — inevi- 
tably coming,  when  we  shall  no 
longer  speak  of  the  forces  of  the 
Kingdom  of  God  at  work  within  the 
Republic,  but  of  the  forces  of  the 
Republic  at  work  within  the  King- 
dom of  God. 

Richard  Wallace  Hague. 


352 


TRINITY  XVIII 

OUR  NEIGHBOR 

l/[rAITING   for  the   coming   of 
^  ^    the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

For  grace  to  love  our  neighbor  as 
ourself, 

We   beseech   Thee   to   hear   us, 
Good  Lord. 


953 


OCTOBER  3 


Sunday — 

TTELP  me  to  help  my  brothers 
^  -^       bear 

Their  lonehness,  their  poverty, 
Their   sorrow   and   their   blank   de- 
spair— 
Some  Avorking  vision  grant  to  me. 

Grant  each  and  all  uncommon  sense 
To  lift  our  lives  to  happier  height. 
Be  Thou  our  present  recompense, 
Be  Thou  our  everlasting  light. 

Robinson  Smith. 


354 


OCTOBER  4 


A 


Monday — 

MAN  who  does  not  do  as  he 
would  be  done  b}^  a  man  who 
who  does  not  love  his  neighbor  as 
himself,  is  selfish.  In  other  words,  he 
is  using  some  part  of  society  for  his 
own  individual  advantage,  without 
regard  to  what  the  effect  is  upon 
Society  itself.  He  makes  himself  a 
center  around  which  he  swings  his  fel- 
lows. 

Bishop  Brent:   The  Inspiration  of 
Responsibility. 


855 


OCTOBER  5 


Tuesday — 

JESUS,  who  didst  touch  the  leper, 
Deliver  us  from  antipathies; 
Who  didst  dwell  among  the  Naza- 
renes 

Deliver  us  from  incompatibility; 
Who  didst  eat  with  some  that  washed 
not  before  meat. 

Deliver  us  from  fastidiousness; 
Who  didst  not  promise  the  right  hand 

or  the  left, 
Deliver  us  from  favoritism; 
Deliver  us  while  it  is  called  today. 
Thou  who  givest  us  today  and  promis- 
ed us  not  tomorrow. 

Christina  Rossetti, 


856 


OCTOBER  6 


Wednesday — 

T  T  E  is  the  philanthropic  man 
^  ^  who  does  good  even  to  his  ene- 
mies. Eut  every  man  is  neighbour 
to  every  man,  and  not  merely  this 
man  or  that;  for  the  good  and  the 
bad,  the  friend  and  the  enemy,  are 
alike  men. 

You  seem  to  me  not  to  know  what 
the  greatness  of  philanthropy  is, 
which  is  affection  towards  any  one 
whatever  in  respect  of  his  being  a 
man,  apart  from  physical  persuasion. 
St.  Clement  of  Alexandria. 


857 


OCTOBER  7 


Thursday — 

T  F  the  rich  and  great  can  find  out 
^  such  .  .  .  self -enjoyments  of  their 
riches  as  show  that  they  love  God 
with  all  their  strength,  and  their 
neighbours  as  themselves;  rehgion 
has  no  command  against  such  enjoy- 
ments. 

William    Law:    Christian    Perfection. 


^\/f  OST  of  the  virtues  that  bind  us 
^  -*"  to  God,  that  make  us  holy — 
truthfulness,  fidelity,  charity,  pa- 
tience, meekness,  justice — have  ref- 
erence to  our  neighbor.  Our  indi- 
vidual perfection,  and  ultimately  our 
perfect  happiness,  is  at  the  same  time 
the  perfection  of  our  social  relations. 
Rev.  L.  McKenna,  S.  J. 


358 


OCTOBER  8 


Friday — 

r\F  TRUE  LOVE.  Blessed  is 
^^  that  brother  who  would  love  his 
brother  as  much  when  he  is  ill  and 
not  able  to  assist  him  as  he  loves  him 
when  he  is  well  and  able  to  assist 
him. 

Writings  of  St.  Francis:  Tr.  by  Father 
Paschal  Robinson, 


npHOU  shalt  communicate  in  all 
'■'  things  with  thy  neighbour ;  thou 
shalt  not  call  things  thine  own;  for 
if  ye  are  partakers  of  things  which 
are  incorruptible,  how  much  more  of 
those  things  which  are  corruptible. 

Epistle  of  Barnabas:  Ch.  XIX, 


359' 


OCTOBER  9 


SaUirday — 

COJME,    though    with    purifying 
fire 
And  desolating  sword, 
Thou  of  all  nations  the  desire, 
Earth  waits  thy  cleansing  word. 

Anoint  our  eyes  with  healing  grace 
To  see  as  ne'er  before 
Our  Father,  in  our  brother's  face, 
Our  Master,  in  Plis  poor. 

Eliza  Sc udder. 


860 


TRINITY  XIX 

CHRISTIAN  IDEALS  OF 
PROPERTY 


T    ET  him  that  stole  steal  no  more; 
^^  but  rather  let  him  labor,  that  he 

may   have   to    give    to    him   that 

needeth. 


That  we  be  renewed  in  the  spirt  of 
our  mind, 

We  beseech  Thee  to  hear  us^ 
Good  Lord. 


961 


OCTOBER   10 


Sunday — 

rpHE   vision  of  Christ  that   thou 
^  dost  see 

Is  my  vision  of  greatest  enemy. 
He  scorned  earth's  parents,  scorned 

earth's  God, 
And  mocked  the  one  and  the  other 

rod. 
His  seventy  disciples  sent 
Against  rehgion  and  government. 
He  left  his  father's  trade  to  roam, 
A  wandering  vagrant,  without  home. 
This  was  the  race  that  Jesus  ran. 
Humble  to  God,  haughty  to  man, 
Cursing  the  rulers  before  the  people. 
Even  to  the  ten^ple's  highest  steeple. 
Throughout    the    land    he    took   his 

course. 
Tracing  diseases  to  their  source. 
Where'er  his  chariot  took  its  way 
The  gates  of  death  let  in  the  day. 

William   Blake, 
S6i 


OCTOBER  11 


Monday — 

"1^  rHAT  has  religion  to  say  to  the 
^  ^  institution  of  Property?  The 
(early)  Christian  Church  became  a 
corporation  for  mutual  support,  re- 
fusing the  idler  who  would  not  work, 
but  for  the  rest  accepting  the  maxim 
that  they  "must  provide  one  another 
with  support,  with  all  joy.  To  the 
workman,  work;  to  him  who  can  not 
work,  mercy  (or  alms)."  There  is 
no  doubt  that  this  profound  sense  of 
the  communal  claim  on  private  prop- 
erty, and  this  practically  effective 
sense  of  brotherhood  produced  an 
economic  condition  in  the  Christian 
community  which  was  one  main  cause 
of  its  progress. 

Property,  Its  Duties  and  Rights. 


363 


OCTOBER   12 


Tuesday — 

'VT'OUR  very  existence  is  not  your 
^  own:  how  is  it,  then,  that  your 
riches  are?  They  belong  rather  to 
those  for  whom  God  has  given  them 
into  your  keeping.  Riches  are  a 
common  property,  like  the  light  of 
the  sun,  the  air,  or  the  productions 
of  the  earth.  Riches  are  to  society 
what  food  is  to  the  body:  should  any 
one  of  her  members  wish  to  absorb 
the  nutriment  which  is  intended  for 
the  support  of  all,  the  body  would 
perish  entirely:  it  is  held  together 
only  by  the  requisite  distribution  of 
nourishment  to  diverse  parts.  .  .  . 
To  give  and  to  receive  is  the  basis 
and  theory  of  all  human  society. 

The   Body   of  the   Fathers:   Tenth 

Homily. 


364 


OCTOBER  13 


Wednesday — 

rilHE  other  part  of  '''ustice  is 
-■-  Equity,  that  making  oneself 
equal  with  others  which  Cicero  calls 
"equability."  For  God,  who  both 
produces  and  breathes  into  men,  has 
willed  that  all  should  be  equal,  that 
is,  equally  matched  (pares).  None 
is  with  Him  a  slave,  none  a  master. 
.  .  .  Wherefore  neither  the  Romans 
nor  the  Greeks  could  possess  justice, 
because  they  have  had  men  of  many 
unequal  grades,  from  poor  to  rich, 
from  humble  to  powerful.  For 
where  all  are  not  equally  matched 
there  is  not  equity;  and  inequality 
itself  excludes  justice. 

Summary  of  Lactantius:  Vernfm  Bart- 

Ut,  Property,  Its  Duties  and 

Rights. 


865 


OCTOBER  14 


Thursday — 

/^UR  inequalities  materialize  our 
^^  upper  class,  vulgarize  our  mid- 
dle class,  brutalize  our  lower  class. 

Matthew  Arnold. 


npHE  strong  centres  of  modern 
^  English  property  must  swiftly 
be  broken  up,  if  even  the  idea  of 
property  is  to  remain  among  Eng- 
lishmen. 

G.  K,  Chesterton^ 


366 


OCTOBER   15 


Friday — 

'A     LIFE  lived  in  the  spirit  that 
aims    at    creating    rather    than 
possessing  has  a  certain  fundamental 
happiness    of   which   it   can   not   be 
wholly   robbed   by    adverse    circum- 
stances.    This  is  the  way  of  life  re- 
commended in  the  Gospels  and  by 
all  the  great  teachers  of  the  world. 
Those  who Jiave  found  it  are  free  from 
the  tyranny  of  fear,  since  what  they 
value  most  in  their  lives  is  not  at  the 
mercy    of    outside    power.  .  .  .  But 
the  teaching  of  Christ  has  been  nom- 
inally accepted  by  the  world  for  many 
centuries,  and  yet  those  who  follow  it 
are  still  persecuted  as  they  were  be- 
fore the  time  of  Constantine. 

Bertand  Russell:  Proposed  Roads   to 

Freedom. 


867 


OCTOBER  16 


o 


Saturday — 

NLY  the  meek  inherit  the  earth, 
and  so  long  as  we  guard  the 
goods  of  earth  for  that  common  in- 
heritance,  we  cannot  be  too  acquisi- 
tive. Let  us  enhance  our  sense  of 
the  sacredness  of  property  till  it  shall 
become  impossible  for  the  least  or 
weakest  to  find  himself  a  homeless 
wanderer  in  this  heritage  which  is 
his  own. 

Vida  D.  Scudder:  Socialism  and 
Character,  p.  298. 


WHATEVER  we  treasure  for 
ourselves  separates  us  from 
others;  our  possessions  are  our  limi- 
tations. 

Rabindranath  Tagore. 


36g 


TRINITY  XX 

A  WEEK  OF  THANKS- 
GIVING 

/GIVING    thanks    always    in    all 
^^       things  unto  God  the  Father, 

n   the  name   of  our   Lord   Jesus 

Christ. 

For  our  power  to  make  melody  in 
our  hearts  to  Thee,  Good  Lord,  we 
thank  Thee. 


869 


OCTOBER  17 


Sunday — 

T  ORD  GOD  ALMIGHTY,  we 
^  give  thanks  to  Thee  for  all 
things,  because  Thou  hast  sheltered 
us,  Thou  hast  redeemed  us  unto 
Thyself,  Thou  hast  brought  us  to 
this  hour.  Remember,  O  Lover  of 
men,  the  sowings  and  the  increase  of 
the  land;  may  they  grow  and  multi- 
ply. Remember,  O  Lord,  the  safety 
of  Thy  Holy  Church.  Remember, 
O  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  cap- 
tivities of  Thy  people.  Heal  them 
that  are  sick,  give  rest  unto  them 
that  are  fallen  asleep.  For  Thou  art 
the  resurrection  of  us  all,  and  to 
Thee,  with  Thy  Father  and  the  Holy 
Ghost  the  Life-Giver,  we  send  up 
thanksgiving  unto  highest  Heaven, 
world  without  end.     Amen. 

Liturgy  of  the  Coptic  Jacobites, 

370 


OCTOBER  18 


Monday — 

r^  LORY  to  Thee,  O  Lord,  Who 
^^  by  thy  operation  hast  manifested 
the     everlasting     harmony     of     the 
world.     Thou  hast  opened  the  eyes 
of  our  hearts  that  they  may  know 
Thee,  the  Highest  among  the  high- 
est, the  Holy  One  among  the  holy 
ones.    Thou  exaltest  the  humble  and 
puttest    down    the    mighty.      Thou 
whose   regard   penetrates   the   abyss 
and  scans  the  work  of  men:     Thou 
who  hast  multiphed  the  nations  upon 
earth,  and  chosen  from  among  them 
those  who  love  Thee  through  Jesus 
Christ:  we  beseech  Thee,  O  Master, 
be   our   help   and   succor.      Yea,   O 
Lord,  make  thy  face  to  shine  upon 
us  for  our  well-being  and  our  peace, 
and  give  concord  to  all  the  dwellers 
upon  earth. 

From  the  Epistle  of  St.   Clement  of 
Rome,  second  or  third  century, 

371 


OCTOBER  19 


Tuesday — 

A/f  EN  in  that  time  a-coming  shall 
^  ■*■        work  and  have  no  fear 
For  tomorrow's  lack  of  earning,  and 

the  hungry  wolf  anear! 
I  tell  you  this  for  a  wonder  that  no 

man  then  shall  be  glad 
Of  his  fellow's  fall  and  mishap,  to 

snatch  at  the  work  he  had ! 
For  that  which  the  worker  winneth 

shall  then  be  his  indeed 
Nor  shall  half  be  reaped  for  noth- 
ing by  him  that  sowed  no  seed, 
O  strange,  new,  wonderful  justice! 

But  for  whom  shall  we  gather  the 
gain  ? 
For  ourselves  and  for  each  of  our 

fellows,  and  no  hand  shall  labor 

in  vain! 

William  Morris. 


872 


OCTOBER  20 


Wednesday — 

1\yf  Y  neighbor's  grief  is  dark  to 
^  ^       me. 

I  gaze  and  dread,  without; 
And  marvel  how  he  lives  to  bear 

The  blackness  and  the  doubt. 

And  yet,  by  all  lost  ways  of  grief 
That  I  have  had  to  plod, 

I  know  how  small  a  rift  lets  through 
A  httle  gleam  of  God. 

Josephine  Peahody  Marks. 


8T8 


OCTOBER  21 


Thursday — 

/^OME,  dear  Heart! 

^^  The  fields  are  white  to  har- 
vest: come  and  see 

As  in  a  glass  the  timeless  mystery 

Of  love,  whereby  we  feed 

On  God,  our  bread  indeed. 

Torn  by  the  sickles,  see  Him  share 
the  smart 

Of  travailing  Creation:  maimed,  de- 
spised, 

Yet  by  His  lovers  the  more  dearly 
prized 

Because  for  us  He  lays  his  beauty 
down — 

Last  toll  paid  by  Perfection  for  our 
loss! 

Trace  on  these  fields  his  Everlasting 
Cross, 

And  o'er  the  stricken  sheaves  the 
Immortal  Victim's  Crown. 

Evelyn  UnderhilL 
374 


OCTOBER  22 


Friday — 

jC^ROM  far  horizons  came  a  Voice 

'^         that  said, 

"Lo!  from  the  hand  of  Death  take 

thou  thy  daily  bread." 
Then  I,  awakening,  saw 
A  splendour  burning  in  the  heart  of 

things : 
The  flame  of  living  love  which  lights 

the  law 
Of  mystic  death  that  works  the  mys- 
tic birth. 
I   knew  the  patient  passion  of  the 

earth. 
Maternal,  everlasting,  whence  there 

springs 
The  Bread  of  angels  and  the  life  of 

man. 

Evelyn  Underhill. 


875 


OCTOBER  23 


Saturday — 

XTOW  in  each  blade 

•''^        I,  blind  no  longer,  see 

The  Glory  of  God's  growth :  know  it 
to  be 

An  earnest  of  the  Immemorial  Plan. 

Yea,  I  have  understood 

How  all  things  are  one  great  obla- 
tion made: 

He  on  our  altars,  we  on  the  world's 
rood. 

Even  as  this  corn, 

Earth  bom, 

We  are  snatched  from  the  sod; 

Reaped,  ground  to  grist, 

Crushed  and  tormented  in  the  Mills 
of  God, 

And  offered  at  Life's  hands,  a  living 
Eucharist. 

Evelyn   Underhill. 


876 


TPJNITY  XXI 

CHRISTIAN  STEADFAST- 
NESS 

OTAND    therefore    having    your 
^^       feet  shod  with  the  preparation 
of  the  gospel  of  peace. 

That  we  watch  with  all  perseverance 
We   beseech   Thee   to  hear   us, 
Good  Lord. 


377 


OCTOBER  24 


Sunday — 

\^HAT  is  needed  today,  men  and 
^  ^  brethren,  is  men  who  will  live 
for  their  fellows,  and  by  that  I  mean 
who  will  give  every  inch  of  their  time 
and  every  particle  of  their  being  for 
the  welfare  of  mankind,  the  common 
weal. 

Bishop  Brent:   The  Inspiration  of 
Responsibility.    Longmans. 


878 


OCTOBER  25 


Monday — 

T~\0  we  "desire  a  better  country, 
^^  that  is  an  heavenly?"  Why, 
then  the  New  Testament  tells  us 
that  we  must  be  full  of  energy  and 
activity,  true  members  of  the  Church 
Militant;  for  it  is  the  violent  only, 
or  those  who  exercise  continual  force, 
that  gain  final  admission  to  the  king- 
dom of  Heaven,  the  Church  Tri- 
umphant. 

Charles  Fox, 


379 


OCTOBER  26 


Tuesday — 

rpHE  true  Christian  is  the  true 
^  citizen,  lofty  of  purpose,  reso- 
lute in  endeavor,  ready  for  a  hero's 
deeds,  but  never  looking  down  on 
his  task  because  it  is  cast  in  the  day 
of  small  things ;  scornful  of  baseness, 
awake  to  his  own  duties  as  well  as 
to  his  rights,  following  the  higher 
law  with  reverence,  and  in  this  world 
doing  all  that  in  him  lies,  so  that 
when  death  comes  he  majr  feel  that 
mankind  is  in  some  degree  better  be- 
cause he  has  lived. 

Theodore    Roosevelt:    The    Strenuous 
Life.     By  permission  of  The  Cen- 
tury Co. 


380 


OCTOBER  27 


Wednesday — 

O  OME  people  have  imagined  that 
^^  they  only  renounce  the  world  as 
it  ought  to  be  renounced,  who  retire 
to  a  cloister  or  a  monastery;  but  this 
is  as  unreasonable  as  to  make  it  nec- 
essary to  lay  aside  all  use  of  clothes 
to  avoid  the  vanity  of  dress.  They 
onl}^  renounce  the  world  as  they 
ought  .  .  .  who  comply  with  their 
share  in  the  offices  of  human  life 
without  complying  with  the  spirit 
that  reigneth  in  the  world. 

William  Law:  Christian  Perfection. 


381 


OCTOBER  28 


Thursday — 

Y^V/^HO   goeth   in  the  way  which 

Christ  hath  gone 
Is  much  more  sure  to  meet  with  Him 
than  one 

That  travelleth  by-ways. 
Perhaps  my  God,  though  He  be  far 

before, 
May  turn,  and  take  me  by  the  hand, 
and  more 

May  strengthen  my  decays. 

George  Herbert. 


882 


OCTOBER  29 


Friday — 

V.  Blessed  are  they  that  hunger  and 

thirst  after  justice. 
R.  For  they  shall  be  filled. 

r\  CREATIVE  Word  who  while 
^^  on  earth  didst  not  disdain  to  be 
known  as  the  Carpenter,  grant  sight 
to  those  blinded  by  luxury  and  de- 
liverance to  those  bound  by  want, 
that  the  rich  may  joyfully  follow  the 
simplicity  of  Thy  most  holy  life  and 
the  poor  may  obtain  the  inheritance 
af  the  meek,  and  that  the  hearts  of  all 
may  be  set  with  one  accord  to  discover 
the  Way  of  Salvation;  through  Thy 
mercy  who  for  our  sakes  didst  become 
poor  that  we  through  Thy  poverty 
might  become  rich.    Amen. 

S.  C.  H.  r.  Manual 

383 


OCTOBER  30 


Saturday — 

t^ORWAKD!"  cried  one,  "for  us 
'"'         no  beaten  track, 
No  city  continuing,  no  turning  back : 
The  past  we  love  not  for  its  being 

past, 
But  for  its  hope  and  ardour  forward 

cast." 

Henry  Newholt. 

T  ET  us  each  in  God's  name  do  our 
"^-^  part,  and  then  the  time  is  not 
far  distant  when  we  shall  see  our 
land  not  merely  the  richest,  but  th^ 
brightest,  the  freest,  and  consequent- 
ly the  most  Christian  in  the  world. 
So  long  as  there  is  one  untended 
sick-bed,  one  unrelieved  poor  person, 
one  unavenged  injustice,  one  pre- 
ventable misery  permitted,  there  is 
work  for  us  to  do. 

H.  Russell  Wakefield. 
384 


TRINITY  XXII 

ALL  SAINTS 

V.  Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart 
R.  For  they  shall  see  God. 

"C^OR  confidence  that  He  who  hath 
^         begun  a  good  work  in  us  will 

perform  it  unto  the  Day  of  Jesus 

Christ, 

Good  Lord  we  thank  Thee. 


885 


OCTOBER  31 


Sunday — 

TRACES,  faces,  faces  of  the  stream- 
ing, marching  surge, 
Streaming  on  the  weary  road,  toward 

the  awful  steep, 
Whence  your  glow  and  glory  as  ye 

set  to  that  sharp  verge. 
Faces  lit  as  sunlit  stars,  shining  as 

ye  sweep? 

Lo,  the  Light,  they  answer,  O  the 

pure,  the  pulsing  Light, 
Beating  like  a  heart  of  life,  like  a 

heart  of  love! 

O  my  soul,  how  art  thou  to  that  liv- 
ing Splendor  bhnd. 

Sick  with  thy  desire  to  see  even  as 
these  men  see! 

Yet  to  look  upon  them  is  to  know 
that  God  hath  shined: 

Faces  lit  as  sunlit  stars,  be  all  my 

light  to  me!  jj,i^^^  q^^^  Cone. 

386 


NOVEMBER  1 


Monday — 

TDRING  me  to  see,  Lord,   bring 

me  yet  to  see 
Those  nations  of  Thy  glory  and  Thy 


grace 


^l^ho  splendid  in  Thy  splendour 
worship  Thee. 

Home-comers  out  of  every  change 
and  chance, 

Hermits  restored  to  social  neighbor- 
hoods. 

Aspects  which  reproduce  One  coun- 
tenance. 

Life-losers  with  their  losses  all  made 
good. 

All  blessed  hungry  and  athirst  suf- 
ficed. 

All  who  bore  crosses  round  the  Holy 
Rood, 

Friends,  brethren,  sisters  of  Lord 
Jesus  Christ. 

Christina  Rossetfi. 

387 


NOVEMBER  2 


Tuesday — 

A  S  clouds  sweep  over  the  moon, 
^^^  The  hosts  of  the  dead  pass  by: 
They  veil  the  terrible  face, 

The  inviolate  face  of  the  sky. 
They  fill  the  winds  of  the  world 
With   the   sound   of   their   gentle 
breath ; 
They  temper  the  ghtter  of  life 
By  the  merciful  shadow  of  death. 

Their  care  is  all  for  us ;  they  whisper 

low 
Of  the  great  heritage 
To  which  we  go.  ... 
We  all  unknowing,  wage 
Our  endless  fight. 
By  ghostly  banners  led, 
By  arms  invisible  helped  in  the  strife. 
Without  the  friendship  of  the  happy 

dead 
How  should  we  bear  our  life? 

Evelyn   Underhill:  Immanence, 
388 


NOVEMBER  3 


Wednesday/ — 

n^HE  neglect  of  prayer  for  the 
dead  and  a  general  lack  of  in- 
terest in  the  vast  buried  body  of  hu- 
manity, whereof  we  who  now  live  are 
only  the  newly-forming  but  as  yet 
unformed  matter,  is  characteristic  of 
the  ultra-individualism  of  modern 
religion,  .  .  .  The  living  are  but 
strangers  and  pilgrims  on  this  visible 
earth,  seeking  an  invisible  City  whose 
builder  and  maker  is  God,  whose 
foundations  are  upon  the  hills  of 
Eternity.  In  this  view,  Humanity 
is  one  great  Tree  of  Life  which  year 
by  year  sends  forth  its  gi'een,  tender 
shoots  to  be  hardened  into  formed 
wood  as  autumn  and  winter  succeed 
to  summer  and  spring. 

George  Tyrrell:  Oil  and  Wine. 


889 


NOVEMBER  4 


Thui'sday — 

ET  us  have  no  scruples  in  throw- 


L 


ing  ourselves  into  the  work  to 
which  the  Church  of  the  twentieth 
century  is  manifestly  called  by  God, 
— the  progress  towards  a  C  wit  as  Dei 
here  on  earth.  .  .  .  We  need  not  be 
afraid  of  losing  sight  of  the  next 
world  by  living  for  our  own  and  the 
next  generation.  The  land  that  is 
very  far  off,  and  those  who  are  gone 
thither  before  us,  will  never  seem 
nearer  to  us  than  when  Christian 
charity  in  its  most  concrete  practical 
form  has  become  the  ruling  principle 
of  our  lives.  "We  know  that  we 
have  passed  from  death  unto  life," 
says  St.  John,  "because  we  love  the 
brethren." 

W.  R.  Inge. 


i90 


NOVEMBER  5 


Friday — 

XJO  ideal  of  a  perfect  state,  no 
^  ^  dream  of  a  golden  age  or  para- 
dise restored  which  has  ever  visited 
the  imagination  of  genius  or  risen 
hefore  the  rapt  gaze  of  inspired  seer 
or  prophet,  can  surpass  that  future 
of  universal  light  and  love  which 
Christianity  encourages  us  to  expect 
as  the  destiny  of  our  race  .  .  .  wlien 
we  shall  all  come  in  the  unity  of  the 
faith  and  of  the  knowledge  of  the 
Son  of  God  unto  a  perfect  man,  unto 
the  measure  of  the  stature  of  the 
fullness  of  Christ. 

John  Caird. 


891 


NOVEMBER  6 


Saturday — 

/^  GOD,  whose  joyous  love  is  as 
^^  a  boundless  ocean,  let  the 
stream  that  makes  glad  the  City  of 
God  flow  into  the  turbid,  sluggish 
waters  of  our  lives;  let  its  clear, 
strong  current  course  through  our 
weak  wills,  that  we  may  meet  all  dif- 
ficulties with  overflowing  life  and 
energy;  through  Him  Who  is  our 
life,  even  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 
Amen. 

Prayers  from  the  City  of  God, 


392 


TRINITY  XXIII 

UNWORLDLINESS 

jC^OR     our     conversation     is     in 
'■'  Heaven, 

From  minding  earthly  things. 
Good  Lord,  deliver  us. 


893 


NOVEMBER 


Sunday — 

A  ND  Patience  told  him  of  Pov- 
'^^^  erty  and  Riches  and  of  the  nine 
blessings  of  Poverty:  "It  is,"  said 
Patience,  "a  hateful  blessing,  it 
judges  none  (for  it  is  too  poor  to  be 
made  a  judge),  it  is  wealth  without 
calumny,  it  is  the  gift  of  God;  it  is 
mother  of  health;  it  is  a  road  of 
peace;  it  is  a  well  of  wisdom;  it  is 
business  without  loss;  and  it  is  hap- 
piness without  care." 

Langland :  The  Vision  of  Piers  the 

Plowman. 


894i 


NOVEMBER  8 


Monday — 

TT  is  wonderful  upon  how  little 
^  those  rare  natures,  making  the 
most  of  things,  will  live  and  thrive. 
There  is  a  great  deal  more  to  be  got 
out  of  things  than  is  generally  got 
out  of  them,  whether  the  thing  be  a 
chapter  of  the  Bible  or  a  yellow 
turnip,  and  the  marvel  is  that  those 
who  use  the  most  material  should  so 
often  be  those  who  show  the  least 
result  in  strength  of  character. 

George  Macdonald :  Sir  Gibbie. 


895 


NOVEMBER  9 


Tuesday — 

TT  is  the  enduring  of  hardness,  it 
^  is  sharing  the  life  ...  it  is  a 
discontent  with  the  luxury,  the 
"needed  comfort,"  as  it  is  called,  of 
modern  life,  that  will  create  amongst 
the  educated  classes  a  true  enthu- 
siasm for  the  righting  of  wrongs  that 
cry  out  continually  into  the  ears  of 
the  Lord  God  of  Sabbaoth,  for  which, 
if  we  do  not  repent  of  them,  Eng- 
land's Church,  because  she  has  not 
dared  to  speak  out  the  truth,  must 
expect  her  punishment. 

Rev.  R.  R.  Dolling. 


896 


NOVEMBER  10 


Wednesday — 

OHALL  I  speak  to  you  of  the 
^^  blasphemies  which  the  sight  of 
the  dirt  protected  by  raiment  bought 
at  so  great  a  price  rouses  in  the  poor 
when,  amid  cruel  sufferings  from 
winter  frost,  they  behold  their  own 
flesh  and  blood,  torpid  with  cold, 
hunger  and  thirst  on  account  of  the 
wicked  impiety  and  thoughtless  want 
of  compassion  expressed  by  this  lux- 
ury? Lend  an  ear,  O  woman  ar- 
rayed in  a  train,  pay  heed,  O  narrow 
mind. 

Sermon  of  St.  Bernardino  of  Siena. 


897 


NOVEMBER  11 


Thursday — 

THRUMS  and  battle  cries 
^^  Go  out  in  music  of  the  morn- 
ing-star— 
And  soon  we  shall  have  thinkers  in 
the  place 
Of  fighters,  each  found  able  as 

a  man 
To     strike     electric     influence 

through  a  race, 
Unstayed  by  city  wall  and  bar- 
ican. 

Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning:  Casa  Guidi 

Windows. 


898 


NOVEMBER  12 


Friday— 

l^T^HEN  your  body  is  committed 
^  ^  to  the  ground,  the  sight  of 
your  homes  Vvill  not  permit  the  mem- 
ory of  your  ambition  to  be  buried 
with  you,  but  each  passer-by,  as  he 
contemphites  the  height  and  size  of 
your  grand  mansions,  will  say  to 
himself  or  his  neighbors,  "How  many 
orphans  were  left  naked!  How 
many  widows  wronged!  How  many 
persons  deprived  of  tlieir  wages!" 
Thus  the  exact  contrary  of  what  you 
expected  comes  to  pass:  You  desired 
to  obtain  glory  during  your  life,  and, 
lo!  even  after  death  you  are  not  de- 
livered from  accusers. 

Ancient  Homily, 


899 


NOVEMBER  13 


Saturday — 

/COMFORTS  very  soon  reach  the 
^^  point  where  they  begin  to  clog 
instead  of  hberating  human  energies. 
A  venerable  statesman  has  been 
heard  to  remark  that  the  things  peo- 
ple say  they  "can't  do  without"  are 
like  the  pieces  of  thread  with  which 
the  Lilliputians  bound  Gulliver. 
Nobody  therefore  can  find  out  what 
he  really  needs  for  his  work  without 
constantly  testing  himself  in  giving 
up  things. 

Bishop    Gore:   Prayer   and    the    Lord's 

Prayer, 


400 


TRINITY  XXIV 


ALLELUIA! 

/GIVING  thanks  unto  the  Father 
^^         who  hath  made  us  meet  to  be 

partakers  of  the  inheritance  of  the 

saints  in  hght. 

That  we  be  strengthened  unto  all 
patience  and  long-suffering  with 
joyfulness, 

We   beseech    Thee   to   hear   us, 
Good  Lord. 

From  glory  to  glory  advancing,  we 
hymn  Thee,  the  Saviour  of  our 
souls. 

401 


NOVEMBER  14 


Sunday — 

r^OR  days  of  health, 

'*•      For  nights  of  quiet  sleep,  .  .  . 

For  all  earth's  contribution  to  our 
need, 

Good  Lord,  we  thank  Thee. 

For  our  country's  shelter. 

For  our  homes. 

For  the  joy  of  faces  and  the  joy  of 
hearts  that  love, 

Good  Lord,  we  thank  Thee. 

For  the  gladness   that   abides   with 
loyalty  and  the  peace  of  the  return, 
Good  Lord,  we  thank  Thee. 

For  the  blessedness  of  service. 

For  our  necessities  of  work, 

For  burdens,  pains  and  disappoint- 
ments, means  of  growth. 

For  sorrow, 

For  death. 

Father,  we  thank  Thee. 


S.  C.  11.  C.  Manual 
402 


NOVEMBER  15 


Monday — 

/^NCE  where  I  lay  in  darkness 

^^       after  fight, 

Sore  smitten,  thrilled  a  little  thread 
of  song 

Searching  and  searching  at  my  muf- 
fled sense 

Until  it  shook  sweet  pangs  through 
all  my  blood, 

And  I  beheld  one  globed  in  ghostly 
fire 

Singing,  star-strong,  her  golden  can- 
ticle ; 

And  her  mouth  sang,  ''The  hosts  of 
Hate  roll  past, 

A  dance  of  dust  motes  in  the  sliding 
sun ; 

Love's    battle    comes    on    the    wide 
wings  of  storm, 

From  east  to  west  one  legion!  Wilt 
thou  strive?" 

William  Faughn  Moody:  Jetsam. 
403 


NOVEMBER   16 


Tuesday — 

/~\NCE    I    thought    that    healing 
^^       came 

From  the  angels'  wings. 
Now  the  bruised  hands  of  men 

Seem  the  kindest  things. 

Once  I  thought  to  pluck  and  eat 

The  fruit  of  Paradise. 
Now  I  break  with  these  their  bread 

With  unsaddened  eyes. 

Once  I  thought  to  find  on  earth 
Love,  perfect  and  complete. 

Now  I  know  it  carries  wounds 
In  its  hands  and  feet. 

Anna  Hempstead  Branch, 


404 


NOVEMBER  17 


Wednesday — 

rilO  an  open  house  in  the  evening 
'■'  Home  shall  all  man  come. 

To  an  older  house  than  Eden, 

To  a  taller  town  than  Rome. 

To  the  end  of  the  way  of  the  wan- 
dering star, 

To  the  things  that  cannot  be  and 
that  are, 

To  the  place  where  God  was  home- 
less 

And  all  men  are  at  home. 

The  Soul  of  the  World. 


405 


NOVEMBER  18 


Thursday — 

rpHE  dew,  the  rain  and  moonlight 
^     All  prove  our  Father's  mind. 
The  dew,  the  rain  and  moonlight 
Descend  to  bless  mankind. 

Come,  let  us  see  that  all  men 
Have  land  to  catch  the  rain, 
Have  grass  to  snare  the  spheres  of 

dew, 
And  fields  spread  for  the  grain. 

Yea,  we  Avould  give  to  each  poor  man 
Ripe  wheat  and  poppies  red, — 
A  peaceful  place  at  evening 
With  the  stars  just  overhead: 

A  net  to  snare  the  moonlight, 
A  sod  spread  to  the  sun, 
A  place  of  toil  by  daytime. 
Of  dreams  when  toil  is  done. 

Vachel   Lindsay, 

406 


NOVEMBER  19 


Friday — 

/^UT  of  the  dusk  a  shadow, 
^^         Then,  a  spark; 
Out  of  the  cloud  a  silence, 

Then,  a  lark. 
Out  of  the  heart,  a  rapture. 

Then,  a  pain; 
Out  of  the  dead,  cold  ashes. 

Life  again. 

John  B.   Tabb. 


407 


NOVEMBER  20 


Saturday — 

]V/TY  understanding  was  lift  up 
-^  ^  into  heaven,  where  I  saw  our 
Lord  as  a  lord  in  His  own  house, 
which  lord  hath  called  all  His  dear- 
worthy  friends  to  a  solemn  feast. 
Then  I  saw  the  Lord  taking  no  place 
in  His  own  house,  but  I  saw  Him 
royally  reign  in  His  house,  and  all 
fulfilleth  it  with  joy  and  mirth  end- 
lessly to  glad  and  solace  His  dear- 
worthy  friends,  full  homely  and  full 
courteously,  with  marvelous  melody 
in  endless  love,  in  His  own  fair 
blessedf  ul  cheer ;  which  glorious  cheer 
of  the  Godhead  fulfilleth  all  heaven 
of  joy  and  bliss. 

Revelations    of    Divine    Love — recorded 

by  Jtdian  Anchoress  at  Norivich, 

Tr.  Serenus  de  Cressy. 


408 


T 


TRINITY  XXV 

SCRIPTURE  PROMISES 

HIS   is  His  name  whereby  He 
shall  be  called :  Tke  Lord  our 
Righteousness. 


For  the  hope  of  His  coming  Who 
shall  execute  judgment  and  jus- 
tice in  the  earth, 

Good  Lord,  we  thank  Thee. 


409 


NOVEMBER  21 


Sunday— 

rpHUS   saith   the   Lord  of  hosts: 

^        Behold,  I  will  save  my  people 

from  the  east  country,  and  from  the 

west  country;  and  I  will  bring  them, 

and  they  shall  dwell  in  the  midst  of 

Jerusalem.  .  .  .  For     before     those 

days  there  was  no  hire  for  man,  nor 

any  hire  for  beast ;  neither  was  there 

any  peace  to  him  that  went  out  or 

came   in  because  of  the   adversary: 

for  I  set  all  men  every  one  against 

his  neighbor.    But  now  I  will  not  be 

unto  the  remnant  of  this  people  as 

in  the  former  days,  saith  the  Lord 

of  hosts.    For  there  shall  be  the  seed 

of  peace. 

Zechariah:  VIII, 


410 


NOVEMBER  22 


Monday — 

T  F  thou  take  away  from  the  midst 
^  of  thee  the  yoke,  the  putting  forth 
of  the  finger,  and  sj^eaking  wickedly ; 
and  if  thou  draw  out  thy  soul  to 
the  hungry,  and  satisfy  the  afflicted 
soul ;  then  shall  thy  light  rise  in  dark- 
ness, and  thine  obscurity  be  as  the 
noon-day.  .  .  .  And  they  that  shall  be 
of  thee  shall  build  the  old  waste 
places :  thou  shall  raise  up  the  founda- 
tions of  many  generations;  and  thou 
shalt  be  called  The  repairer  of  the 
breach,  The  restorer  of  paths  to 
dwell  in. 

Isaiah:  LVIIL 


411 


NOVEMBER  23 


Tuesday — 

A  ND,  behold,  there  came  with  the 
clouds  of  heaven  one  like  unto  a 
Sor.  of  man,  and  he  came  even  to  the 
Ancient  of  days,  and  they  brought 
him  near  before  him.  And  there  was 
given  him  dominion,  and  glory,  and  a 
kingdom,  that  all  peoples,  nations, 
and  languages  should  serve  him:  his 
dominion  is  an  everlasting  dominion, 
which  shall  not  pass  away,  and  his 
kingdom  that  which  shall  not  be  de- 
stroyed. .  .  .  But  the  saints  of  the 
Most  High  shall  receive  the  kingdom 
and  possess  the  kingdom  forever. 

Daniel:  VU. 


412 


NOVEMBER  24 


Wednesday — 

^yU'HEN  the  Son  of  man  shall 
^  ^  come  in  his  glory,  and  all  the 
angels  with  him,  then  shall  lie  sit  on 
the  throne  of  his  glory:  and  before 
hirn  shall  be  gathered  all  the  nations. 
.  .  .  Then  shall  the  King  say  unto 
them  on  his  right  hand,  Come,  ye 
blessed  of  my  Father,  inherit  the 
kingdom  prepared  for  you  from  the 
foundation  of  the  world:  for  I  was 
an  hungred,  and  ye  gave  me  meat :  I 
was  thirsty,  and  ye  gave  me  drink :  I 
was  a  stranger,  and  ye  took  me  in: 
naked,  and  ye  clothed  me :  I  was  sick, 
and  ye  visited  me:  I  was  in  prison, 
and  ye  came  unto  me.  .  .  .  Verily  I 
say  unto  you.  Inasmuch  as  ye  did  it 
unto  one  of  these  my  brethren,  ye  did 
it  unto  me. 

St   Matthew:  XXV. 


413 


NOVEMBER  25 


Thursday — 

\\7HERErORE  judge  nothing 
*  ^  before  the  time,  until  the  Lord 
come,  who  will  both  bring  to  the 
light  the  hidden  things  of  darkness, 
«ind  make  manifest  the  counsels  of 
the  hearts;  and  then  shall  each  man 
have  his  praise  from  God. 

J.  Cor,:  IV. 


A  ND  now,  my  little  children,  abide 
-^"^  in  him;  that  if  he  shall  be  mani- 
fested, we  may  have  boldness,  and 
not  be  ashamed  before  him  at  his  com- 
ing. If  ye  know  that  he  is  righteous, 
ye  know  that  every  one  also  that  doeth 
righteousness  is  begotten  of  him. 

I.  John:  II. 


414 


NOVEMBER  26 


Friday — 

A  ND  I  saw  a  new  heaven  and  a 
new  earth :  for  the  first  heaven 
and  the  first  earth  are  passed  away; 
.  .  .  And  I  saw  the  holy  city,  new 
Jerusalem,  coming  down  out  of  hea- 
ven from  God  made  ready  as  a  hride 
adorned  for  her  husband.  And  I 
heard  a  great  voice  out  of  the  throne 
saying,  Behold,  the  tabernacle  of  God 
is  with  men,  and  he  shall  dwell  with 
them,  and  they  shall  be  his  peoples, 
and  God  himself  shall  be  with  them, 
and  be  their  God.  And  he  shall  wipe 
away  every  tear  from  their  eyes.  .  .  . 
And  he  that  sitteth  on  the  throne 
said,  Behold,  I  make  all  things  new. 

Revelation:  XXI. 


415 


NOVEMBER  27 


Saturday — 

rilHE  city  hath  no  need  of  the  sun, 
^  neither  of  the  moon,  to  shine  up- 
on it :  for  the  glory  of  God  did  lighten 
it,  and  the  lamp  thereof  is  the  Lamb. 
And  the  nations  shall  walk  amidst 
the  light  thereof :  and  the  kings  of  the 
earth  bring  their  glory  into  it.  And 
the  gates  thereof  shall  in  no  wise  be 
sliut  by  day  (for  there  shall  be  no 
night  there)  :  .  .  .  And  on  this  side 
of  the  river  and  on  that  was  the  tree 
of  life  .  .  .  and  the  leaves  of  the  tree 
were  for  the  healing  of  the  na- 
tions. .  .  .  And  his  servants  shall 
serve  him;  and  they  shall  see  liis 
face;  and  his  name  shall  be  on  their 
foreheads.  .  .  .  He  v/ho  testifieth 
these  things  saith.  Yea:  I  come 
quickly.  Amen.  Come,  Lord  Jesus. 
Revelation:  XXI-XXII, 


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